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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031908774 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • tom_ewing1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tom Ewing" <fortfoliomanager@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: tom_ewing1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:11:38 +0100
Subject: TOM EWING ,FIDELITY TRUST FUNDS


Fidelity Investments International
25 Cannon Street
London EC4M 5TA



Gooday,
My name is Tom Ewing.
I am a Fund Manager with Fidelity Investment UK and I handle all our
Investor's Capital Project Funds .I need your attention over some fund
transfer that is carriable

by virtue of my position as manager.Recently my position and experience as
manager ,
enabled me to divert 1.2% Investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our
Magellan Trust Funds Account whereby anyone neutral can be presented to
claim the funds.this

is where I solicit the interest of an experienced investor,therfore this
contact to you .

The total sum of £49.8 M pounds has been diverted representing the 1.2%
Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investor Capital Project Funds for
2005/2006.


All confirmable documents that back up the claims will be made available to
you prior to your acceptance.Meanwhile, modalities and technincalities have
been carefully

worked out in a way that the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing
Houses without any hitches.Still I implore you on your own to think about
this transaction

carefully because to work as a team is preferabble.

From experience,it requires reliance and trust so together we can work this
deal out and claim the funds as mentioned above. There is no risk attached
,in that the

funds in question isnt be risky seeing it is a field I'm involved with for
over 20 years. Our sharing ratio at 60:40 can be discussed too.

If you are interested, please contact me by mail through my
official mail address: tom_ewing1@yahoo.co.uk for discussion of this
transaction in further details.or in person ,still pending mutual
understanding.

Thank's for attending.

Courteously, due apologies for this unsolicited proposal . it is certainly
not a conventional way of approach to establish a

relationship of trust, but I hope this is a transaction we both will be
proud of.

I am counting on your sense of confidentiality,though as it is preferabble
that we keep this business private.


Best Regards,


Dr. Tom Ewing, Britain.

Phone: +447031908774

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