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Page last updated at 15:42 GMT, Monday, 14 July 2008 16:42 UK

BBC confronts football cheat

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An undercover BBC investigation has exposed how young African footballers are being defrauded by conmen posing as representatives from top English Premiership clubs.

Victims are duped into parting with thousands of pounds in the false belief that they are paying official fees for a trial to play for their favourite teams.

During the investigation, the BBC secretly recorded and then confronted a gang of men who were passing themselves off as talent scouts from Manchester United.

Gavin Lee reports.

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