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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:

• This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Wright"<jhjn@jsmail.com.cn> (may be fake) Reply-To: <wrightmathew948@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 01:43:05 +0100 Subject: Fidelity Investments International London Fidelity Investments International Oakhill House, 130 Tonbridge United Kingdom. I am Mr Mathew Wright, the fund manager of fidelity investments international. The world's largest fund management company with over GBP 1.2 trillion capital investment fund. Nevertheless, as the fidelity fund manager, I handle all our investor's direct capital funds and secretly extracts 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the investor's marginal capital fund. As an expert, I have made over GBP 45,745,000.00 from the investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone who has exporting business insight experience to trust and will stand as an Investor to receive the fund as annual investment proceeds from fidelity marginal capital fund. All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the modalities and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our six clearing houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be 50-50. I require is your honest cooperation. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate and no government involvement at all. Sincerely yours, Mathew Wright

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