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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: hegemony online <onlinehegemony@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: tium01@rediffmail.com
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:09:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Fund Manager Fidelity Investments International


Fidelity Investments International
Oakhill house,130 Tonbridge,
Hildenborough. Kent TN119DZ,
United Kingdom.

I am Mr.Tim McCARRON,
The Fund Manager of Fidelity Investment International.The World Largest
Fund Management Company with over £1.2Trillion Capital Investment Fund.
Neverthless, as The Fidelity Fund Manager, I handle all our Investor's
Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 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 £45, 745, 000, 00 from the
Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who 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 technincalities whereby the funds
can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any
hitches.Our sharing ratio will be 50-50. If you are interested,you
should send your direct phone number so we could discuss more on phone as
regard the transaction,

N:B
email, all correspondence must be on this private box.
Sincerely.
Tim McCARRON
(FUND MANAGER)
www.fidelity.co.uk/wealthmanager/funds/europe/oeicsandunittrusts/european.html
www.fidelity.co.uk/wealthmanager/fundmanagercvs/pdfs/TMcCarron.pdf

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