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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: "morgan@fidelity.co.uk" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mcruzfidelity@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:51:03 -0800
Subject: Business Proposal Deal ! Are You Interested Urgent Reply

Attention Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Morgan cruz, Associate Director, Fidelity Investments, and the World
Largest Funds management with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital Investment
Funds.Nevertheless, as Fidelity Associate Director, I handle all our investors
Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 3.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital
Profit (EMRCP) per annul on each of investor's Magellan Capital Funds. As an
expert, I have made over 49.8million GBP from the investors EMCRP and here by
looking for some one to trust who can stand as an investor to receive the funds
as annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Magellan Capital Funds.All confirm
able documents to back up this claim will be made available to you prior to your
acceptance.

Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities where the funds
can be claimed in any of our 6 clearing houses without any hitch .Our sharing
ratio will be 50-50 while expenses Shall be incurred as per each capability
during the process of transaction. Should in case you are interested; please
email me your direct telephone number for discussion of this deal in further
details. Please kindly reply to this email below

mcruzfidelity@aol.com


Sincerely,
Morgan Cruz
Associate Director
London & South
mcruzfidelity@aol.com
+447-0240-73167
+44 70457 20870

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