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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <contact_uk0001@freenet.lu>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:26:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Read...



From; Tom Dobell.
I'm a Fund Manager with M&G's Investment UK , Britain’s oldest unit-trust company and a leading retail and institutional fund manager in the UK and overseas with almost £160 billion under management from equities and fixed income to commercial property. As a Fund Manager, M&G Recovery Fund i handle all investments in companies we believe are currently undervalued by the market, but which have the potential to ‘recover’ and rise in value over the long term and, i manage the £1.6bn M&G Recovery, the £410m M&G British Opportunities and the £247m PPL Specialist UK Equity - a Prudential pension fund which has enabled me to divert 1.2% Investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our Magellan Trust Funds Account whereby anyone can be presented to claim the funds.On this note, the total sum of GBP 22M (£22,000,000.00) has been diverted representing the 1.2% Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investor Capital Project Funds for 2005/2006.I need a reliable and trustworthy person that can work this deal out with me so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above. There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be dictated or traced.
Our sharing ratio is 60% for me and 40% you. Kindly send your direct telephone numbers for discussion of this deal in further details. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire that our personality be reserved.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Best Regards
Tom Dobell
Fund Manager, M&G Recovery Fund.

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