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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: "Fidelity Investment (U.K)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robinshepherd@8u8.tw>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:42:04 +0800
Subject: Urgent Joint Investment Assistance.

Fidelity Investments International
25 Cannon Street
London EC4M 5TA
United Kingdom .


Dear,

I am Mr. Robin Shepherd, Associate director of Fidelity InvestmentInternational. The World Largest Funds Management Company with over GBP 1.2Trillion Capital Investment Funds. Nevertheless, as Fidelity Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Marginal Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made over GBP 45.745m from the
Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Marginal 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 10 clearing Houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be discussed.

Should incase you are interested, please email me back

Sincerely,
Robin Shepherd

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