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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mr Richard Nelson <cskricnelson07@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: nelson_richard_fid@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 05:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FIDELITY


Dear,
I am Richard Nelson Funds Manager of Fidelity
Investment International.The World Largest Funds
Management Company with over $1.2Trillion Capital
Investment Funds.
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 $22.4m
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
technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in
any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches.Our
sharing ratio will be 60-40 while 0.5% will be for
expenses during the process of the transaction. Should
incase you are interested,Please email me your direct
telephone number for discussion of this transaction in
further details.
Sincerely.
Richard Nelson.
www.fidelity-international.com


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