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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: john fisher <jjfisher1920@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: leefprivatebox@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:27:31 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Greetings,


Greetings,

I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment to you.first I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as I wish to rely on your discreteness and ability in transaction of this nature.Let me start by introduce my self properly to you, My name is Mr. John. Fisher, I work as the Head of Fund Manager with Fidelity Investment UK, the World Leading Investment & Fund Management Institution based in UK/Channel Island.

I have an Investor under my portfolio with a closing balance of $42.870m as his first initial deposit. This Investor died three years ago leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for re-transfer of his Investment and its proceeds to the INHERITOR.I have personally carried out an Investigation on the subject matter that took me 12 months to finalize and was made to understand that the Family or Relatives of the Investor knows nothing about his Investment with Fidelity and none have any records of all his deposits and investment with us leaving an avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the INHERITOR to the deceased .

If you are interested, I can present you as the INHERITOR with proper documentation that will qualify you to have the funds claimed and on doing this, our establishment will not question the release of the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with the laid down rules and laws of claiming the Investment of a deceased Investor in our Establishment. Our sharing ratio will be 50:50.Please contacted me for more detail breakdown if interested.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.

Sincerely.
Mr. John Fisher



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