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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: "Robert Stansky" <robstansky@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: robert_stansky@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:26:12 +0100
Subject: Treat As Confidential


Dear Partner,

I am Mr Robert E.Stansky,Funds Manager of Fidelity Investments
International.The World Largest Funds Management Company with over
US$1.2Trillion Capital Investment Funds.

Nevertheless, as Fidelity Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct
Capital Funds and secretly extract 1% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit
(EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Capital Funds.As an expert,I
have made over US$72.4m 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.

www.Fidelity-International.com <http://www.fidelity-international.com/>:

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 negotiable 10% will be for expenseS during the process
of the transaction. Should in case you are interested,Please email me your
direct telephone number for discussion of this transaction in further
details.


Yours Sincerely

Robert E.Stansky

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