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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: luchyp1987@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 07:47:36 +0000
Subject: I need your urgent answer.

Contact information

To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjHInhjAa5bHRbddubnGQPNRmucm3Ba0mJwl3io4INtQN7MQ/viewform?vc
Dear Sir,
I am a stock-picking asset Manager with fidelity investment in-house/
Financial analysis. Brief about the company: Fidelity International (FIL
Limited) was established in 1969 and provides asset management services to
investors all over the world outside the USA, Canada and United Kingdom.
Having been Working with investors, financial advisers and distributors
around the world, I personally handle all our UK Investor's Direct
Capital Funds and I have carefully extracted negligible 0.4% Excess Maximum
Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) annually on each of the Investor's
Marginal Capital Fund. As an expert, I have made over GBP 15,745,000.00
from the Investor's EMRCP. However, as a staff of (FIL Limited), I
cannot claim this money without a foreign partner as an Investor to receive
the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Marginal Capital
Fund. This is why I am contacting you to allow this money to be transferred
into your bank account so we can share it together.
All documents to back up this claim will be made available to you prior to
your acceptance and it should be subject to your verification. Meanwhile,
our percentage sharing ratio on this transaction is negotiable. If you are
interested and need more details, kindly reply via this email for security
reasons: dr.chumag@gmail.com
Kind regards.
Dr. Chucks.


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