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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: "Dr Pat Neame" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <neamepat@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:42:55 -0800
Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hello,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
How are you doing? Hope all is well with you and your family. I am the fund manager of fidelity World Investments. Fidelity world investment is the world largest fund management company with over BP 1.2 trillion capital investment fund. Nevertheless, as the fidelity fund manager, I handled all our investor's direct capital funds and secretly extracted 1.2% excess maximum return capital profit per annual on each of the investor's marginal capital fund.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I am contacting you independently to know if you can partner with me to receive this funds in your country for investment. I will present you as one of our investos to claim the extracted 1.2% excess maximum return capital as one of our Investor. This business is under my custody and most be process legally. I don't want to delay much to avoid the bridge of international monetary policy and the ethics of the investment institution. Any further delay the money will be transferred into government treasury with no benefit. I will send the details of the business to you in your next reply if you’re interested to partner with me.Include your mobile number for oral communication in your next reply.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I look forward to your positive response.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yours Sincerely,
Pat Neame
Executive Fund Manager

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