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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: William Danoff <agbada01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: wcix01@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:32:07 +0200
Subject: Re: Fidelity Investment!!

Hello,

I am Mr. William Danoff, The Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment International.
The World Largest Funds Management Company with over £2.6Trillion
Pounds 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 Magellan
Capital Funds.

As an expert, I have made over Eighteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand
Pounds(£18.500,000) 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 Magellan 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 Six Investment Clearing Bank without any hitches.

Our sharing ratio will be 30% - 70% while 0.5% will be for expenses
during the process of the transaction. Should incase you are
interested, Please send me your direct telephone number for discussion
of this transaction in further details.

Thank you,
Mr. William Danoff

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