Scam Investments and
Business Offers:
Example:
Fidelity Investment International, from John Taylor, Funds manager
johntaylor002@yahoo.com
Did you receive an email from "John Taylor" at "Fidelity Investment International" who says:
"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."?
It starts out sounding like
a legitimate business transaction, but as the victim corresponds with the
scammer, it starts to become strange. You notice that this "Funds manager" is writing
you from a free email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc.) not an email account
at the company (Fidelity Investment International) domain.
Perhaps, you notice his punctuation, spelling, grammar and just
the way he phrases things seems, well, odd. Almost as if, he is not a native
English speaker, or is not very well educated.
John Taylor wants you to either deposit a check or send him the
"investment money" via Western Union.
In reality, it is all a scam. "John Taylor" is not the name of the
person who sent you the email. It is the real name of a real
employee at a real company by the name Fidelity Investment International, but that person did not send the
email to you. The scammer hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune.
If you would like a step by step
explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Notice some of the other
obvious signs that this is a scam are poor
spelling , use of free Yahoo/Hotmail/etc email accounts, proposals that make no
sense, etc.:
Scam email:
From: Mr John Taylor [
johntaylor002@yahoo.com ]
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Re : Investment Proposal
Date: March 7, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mr.John Taylor,Funds manager, Fidelity
International Investments, The World Largest Funds management with over 1.2
Trillion GBP Capital Investment Funds.Nevertheless,as Fidelity Funds
Manager, 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 confirmable
documents to back up this claim will be made available to you prior to your
acceptance.
Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategeous and
technicalities where the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 clearing
houses without any hitch .Our sharing ratio will be 55-40 while 5% will be
for expenses during the process of transaction.
Should incase you are interested; please email me
your direct telephone number for discussion of this deal in further details.
Sincerely,
Mr.John Taylor.
Funds Manager
Phone:+447011138798.
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