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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: "Ted Stone" <m1jenkins@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: tedstone1@yahoo.se
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:40:48 +0100
Subject: ACT ACCORDINGLY


My Name is Mr.Ted Stone,Head Of Investigation Department of Fidelity
Investment International,One of the world's largest fund management company
with over £1.2 Trillion capital investment funds.
As Head Of Investigation of Fidelity
Investment International, I handle all our investor's direct capital funds.

During my routine check up and inspection on investors's EMRCP,I found out
£6.000.000.00 Million from a deceased investor's EMRCP which nobody is
aware of, this was after the recent change of board of directors and some
core
staffs of our firm.

It may interest you to know that I have been able to move the funds to a
finance firm for safety and I am looking for someone to trust who will stand
as an
investor to claim these funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from fidelity
marginal capital funds.

All confirmable and back up documents shall be forwarded to our
clearing house for the release of these funds to you.I have worked out the
modalities and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our
6
Clearing Houses without hitches.

Our sharing ratio will be 50/50. If you are interested,do ensure to furnish
me
with your names in full,your contact address and your direct phone number so
we
can discuss more on telephone as regard the transaction.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Ted Stone.

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