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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: Timothy Mccarron <timothymccarron@q.com>
Reply-To: <timothymccarron@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:12:05 +0000
Subject: HELLO



Fidelity Investments InternationalOak hill House, 130 Ton Bridge,Hildenborough. Kent Tn119dz,United Kingdom.www.Fidelity-International.com
Attn:
I am Mr. Timothy Mccarron, a Fund Manager Of Fidelity Investment International. The world largest fund management company with over 2 Trillion Dollar Capital Investments Fund.
Nevertheless, as a Fidelity Fund Manager, I handle our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRC) Per Annum on each Of the Investor's Marginal Capital Fund. As an expert, I have made over? 28, 745, 000, 00 from the investor's EMRC 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 technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 affiliated clearing houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be 60 for me, and 40 for your effort.If you are interested, send your contact telephone number so we could discuss more on phone as regard the transaction.
N:B; Do not contact my office number or email for any reason, mainly for security purposes, all correspondence must be through this private box. timothymccarron@myway.com
Yours truly,Mr. Timothy MccarronTel: +447011139289

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