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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: "Sam Morse" <tim2000@freenet.lu>
Reply-To: "" <wcd.bill@ymail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:31:00 +0200
Subject: [! SPAM !] Re:Thank you for your response




Dear Friend,

I am Sam Morse, one of the Portfolio Funds Managers
of Fidelity
Investment International. One of the UK`s largest
Management Company
with over $45billion Capital Investment Funds,
Nevertheless, as Fidelity Investment International
Funds Manager, I
handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and
secretly extract
1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP)
perineum on each of
the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds. As an expert,
I have made over
$25.Million USD 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 Investment
International. All
conformable documents to back up the claims will be
made available to
you prior to your acceptance.
Brief history of funds: I have more than 208
Corporate Investors
attached to my portfolio whose Capital Investment
Funds are being
managed and administered by me. This Capital
Investment Funds has a
value of over US$19.2Billion. The US$19.2Billion.is
been used for trading in
Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending with Profit
Returns. Every end of
year, each corporate investor is expected to receive
interest from his
total Investment Capital Funds. However, I make an
excess of 1.2% from
the Investor's Investment Capital Funds annually
which have exceeded
our targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds.
This extra of 1.2%
from the 21.2% is been retained by me as my personal
profits for
managing the Capital Investment.
Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and
technicalities whereby
the funds can be claimed in any of our Clearing
Houses without any
hitches. Our sharing ratio should be 60-40, I think
this is fair.
If you are interested, Please email me your direct
telephone number
for discussion of this transaction in further detail
or send me an
email.

Sincerely,
Sam Morse


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