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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Michael Gordon <mr03gordon@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: mr3gordon@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:16:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Contact Me!!


Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge Road,
Hildenborough, Tonbridge,
Kent TN11 9DZ,
United Kingdom

Attn:

I am Mr Michael Gordon, Chief Investments Officer, Fidelity International Investments,The World Largest Funds management with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital Investment Funds. Nevertheless,as Fidelity Funds Manager,i handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 3.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP)per annum on each of investor's Magallan Capital Funds. As an expert,i have made over $22.4 million from the investor's EMCRP and hereby looking for some one to trust who can stand as an investor to recieve the funds as annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Magallan Capital Funds.All confirmable documents to back up this claim will be made available to you as soon as i recieve your acceptance.

Meanwhile,I have worked out the strategies and technicalities on how the funds can be claimed without any problems.

Should you be interested, please email me your direct telephone number for disscussion of this deal in further details.

Sincerely,

Mr Michael Gordon


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