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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: "Mr. Douglas Cole"<uaj_hu@myway.com>
Reply-To: mr_dougcole@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:26:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CAN I CONFIDE IN YOU?


Fidelity Investments International25 Cannon StreetLondon EC4M 5TAUnited Kingdom.www.fidelity-international.comI am Mr. Douglas Cole, The Fund Manager of Fidelity Investment International.The World Largest Fund Management Company with over £1.2 Trillion Capital Investment Fund.Nevertheless, as The Fidelity Fund Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Marginal Capital Fund.As an expert, I have made over £45,745,000.00 from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the fund as Annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Marginal Capital Fund.All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance.Meanwhile, I have worked out the modalities and technincalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches. Our
sharing ratio will be 65-30 while 5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction. If you are interested, you should send your direct phone number so we could discuss more on phone as regard the transaction, N:B; Do not contact my office number for any reason, mainly for security purposes, all correspondence must be through E-mail. This transaction is 100% legal and above board, moreover I had to be very careful about the scams going on all over the world before contacting you since I do not want to be a victim. I sincerely hope that you are going to be an easy going someone whom will not let me down and you must learn to keep this transaction confidential within you so that we can both achieve our aims. Thanks and waiting for your immediate response.Sincerely,Mr. Douglas Cole.www.fidelity-international.com

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