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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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: "umunna umunna" <onyeafo_004@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:50:08 +0100
Subject: I HOPE YOU GOT MY EMAIL

From: Clive Whittaker

Fidelity Fund Manager

London & Channel Islands.


Dear, Goog Day.


I am Clive Whittaker,a wealth/fund manager of Fidelity Investment
International,- London & Channel Islands. Fidelity Investment Group is one
of the world's largest independent investment/fund management organisations,
entrusted with over £650 billion in assets & $1.2Trillion Capital Investment
Funds globally.Fidelity has 370 investment managers and research analysts
based in offices around the world, offering a wide range of funds to suit
all your needs.


Neverthless, as Fidelity Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct
Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit
(EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.As an
expert,I have made over $45.5M USD (Fort five Point Five Million United
States Dollars) 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 Magellan Capital Funds.All confirmable
documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your
acceptance. Meanwhile,I have worked out the strategies and technincalities
whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any
hitches.Our sharing ratio will be 50-50 in these transaction. Should incase
you find interest in my intent, then call me immediately to stop me from
moving further in sourcing for a capable person. Remember to email me your
direct contact phone numbers/infomation for more discussion of this
transaction in further details. If i do not hear from you, i will consider
it as your sign incapability to handle this huge sum, then distroy this
email for security reasons.


You can rich me true my alternative;afo_001@o2.pl


Sincerely.

Clive Whittaker.

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