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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: "ENGR. BENJAMIN WALTER" <walwal_16_a@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <walbenjamin@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:53:05 +0100
Subject: URGENT



Hello Dear,Compliments of the day, I am ENGR. BENJAMIN WALTER,The Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment InternationalHONG KONG. The World Largest funds management Companywith over $1.2 Trillion capital investment Funds. Nevertheless, as Fidelity Funds Manager, I handle allour Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretlyextract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return CapitalProfi(EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor'sMagellan Capital Funds.As an expert, I have made over £44.5m from theInvestor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone totrust who will stand as an Investor to receive thefunds as Annual Investment Proceeds from FidelityMagellan Capital Funds. All confirmable documents to back up the claims willbe made available to you prior to your acceptance.Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies andTechnicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in anyof our 6 clearing Houses without any hitches, oursharing ratio will be 50-50. Should in case you areinterested, Please email me back for more discussionof this transaction.Thanks in an anticipation of a positive response. Regards ENGR. BENJAMIN WALTER
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