419 scam: "ROBERT HAKEEM"<cmdgh@aol.com> FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "roberthakeem@yandex.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2347081884869 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "ROBERT HAKEEM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robert.hakeem@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:21:25 +0200
Subject: FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION

Alhaji Robert Hakeem

Tel: +2347081884869

mailto: roberthakeem@yandex.com

I solicit your confidence in this transaction I am about to introduce Due to it's

confidentiality. We are members of the Presidential Committee on Appropriation of Contract

Review, Re-award and payments (PC-ACRRP).

This committee was setup to identify and review inflated contracts awarded by the past regimes,

and because of our Membership of the above committee, we are privy to the information that is

hereby revealed to you in this mutually rewarding financial transaction which we will solicit

your Assistance to accomplish.

The fund in question came as a result of government officials in the past regimes (as Mentioned

above) setting up private companies and ensuring that contracts were awarded to Their proxy

companies, many of these contracts were not executed while the executed ones Were poorly done and

grossly over-invoiced in various ministries.

We Consequently identified inflated and unexecuted contract funds presently Floating in the

vault of our Apex Bank. Our desire is to release a particular contract fund from the Several

located ones, but our position as members of the PC-ACRRP would not allow us to Acquire the fund

in our name(s) or do so without foreign assistance.

I am mandated to source for an oversea partner into whose account the Sum of $8,500,000.00

will be paid by Telegraphic transfer and ATM swift transfer, hence this written request.The

following data would be required to commence this transaction: A suitable name into which the

Fund can be paid, name of your bank, account number, bank address and your full contact

Informations. The above information will enable us prepare all necessary legal documents to pose

you or your company as a perfected Re-awarded contract beneficiary and we will endorse a foreign

exchange approval document within 48hrs, to effect contract payment fund credit transfer into

your Designated bank account.

You are advice to acknowledge this letter by email for more details about the transaction.

Thanks.

Alhaji Robert Hakeem.

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