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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 Brobbey <ibrahimmahamathassan328@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mattbrobb48@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:04:41 +0000
Subject: I AM EXPECTING YOUR REPLY

Fidelity Investment International
Oakhill house,130 Tonbridge,Hildenborough.
Kent TN119DZ

Hello ,

I am a stock-picking asset Manager with fidelity investment in-house/
Financial analysis. From our own award-winning in-house research teams
to build international investment products and portfolios
stock-by-stock from the bottom-up of Fidelity Investment
International.

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. We offer a wide range of funds to investors and currently
manage over US$246 Billion for private individuals and institutions.
Having been Working with investors, financial advisers and
distributors around the world, we provide easy access to our
investment funds to help people achieve their medium to long-term
investment and savings goals.

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 and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an
Investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from
Fidelity Marginal Capital Fund.

All documents to back up this claims will be made available to you
prior to your acceptance and it should be subject to your
verification. Meanwhile, I have worked out the official modalities and
technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our six
Clearing Houses without hitches. Our percentage sharing ratio on this
transaction is negotiable. If you are interested and need more details
of the transaction, Revert back.

Kind regards.

Dr. Matthew Brobbey.

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