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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: Matthew Wright <matthewwright697@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: matthew.wright17@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:46:26 +0700
Subject: Investment Proposal, Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP)



Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP)


Attention: Sir/Madam.

I am Mr. Matthew Wright, Associate Director of Fidelity Investments,
the World Largest Funds management with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital
Investment Funds.

Nevertheless, as the Fidelity Associate Director, I handle all our
investors Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 3.2% Excess
Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP) per annum on each of investor's
Magellan Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made over 49.8million GBP
from the investor's 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, email me on our office email:
(matthew.wright17@yahoo.com) and send your direct telephone number for
discussion of this deal in further details.

Sincerely,


Matthew Wright.
Associate Director
London & South
(matthew.wright17@yahoo.com)




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