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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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Fraud email example:

From: rick anderson <rickanderson_v26@msn.com>
Reply-To: <rickanderson404@mail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:48:58 +0000
Subject: From Rick Anderson.



Good Day,

My Name is Rick Anderson, i am Corporate Finance Director of Investec Group of Company, One of the World Largest Funds Management Company located in London (United Kingdom) with 12 Branches and over $50 Billion Capital base Investment Funds.

As a Finance Director of Investec Group, My office handle all our Investor's
Direct Capital Funds and have Secretly Extract 1.2% Excess Maximum
Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.

As an expert, I have made over $18.5million from the Investor's EMRCP.
I am hereby looking for someone to trust, who will stand as an Investor
to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Investec Group
Capital Funds.

Our sharing ratio will be 60 for me,40 for you while 5% will be for any expenses you incured during the process. Should incase you are interested, email me back for discussion of this transaction in further details.
I wait for your urgent reply.

Sincerely,

Rick Anderson.
+44 703 593 3460.

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