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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: Nick Hinds <cyobiconsult_limited@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: hinds.nick@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:21:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Investment


FROM THE DESK OF:
Mr.NIck Hinds
Funds Manager
Fidelity International Investment
#25 Cannon Street,
London-United Kingdom
Phone:+447045722908.
Fax :+448704717614.

I am Nick Hinds,funds Manager of fidelity investment international.the world largest fund management company with over 1.2 trillion pounds capital investment funds.

Nevertheless,as fidelity Fund Manager,I handle all our investors direct capital funds and secretly extract 3.2% excess maximum returncapital profit (EMRCP) per annum on of the investors magellan capital fund. As an expert,I have made over 49.8 M pounds from the investors EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who i will stand as an investor/Shareholder to receive the funds as an annual investment proceeds from Fidelity magellan capital funds.All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance .

Meanwhile,I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 houses without any hitch.Our sharing ration will be 55-40 while 5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction .should incase you are intrested you are adviced to forward me your direct phone number through my private email address: hinds.nick@fidelityintll.net for discussion of this transaction in further details.

Best Regards,

Mr.Nick Hinds.




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