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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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• 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.
  • +447005806736 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "tim mccarron" <ughasoro37@msn.com>
Reply-To: fidelity001@telegraf.by
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:16:58 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME


The Desk Of,
Mr.Tim Mccarron,
Fund Manager,
Fidelity International,UK.
+44 700 5806736

My name is Mr.Tim.McCarron, A Fund Manager with Fidelity Investment, UK. I
handle all our Investors Capital Project Funds which enabled me to divert
1.2% of Investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our Magellan Trust Funds
Account where anyone can be presented to claim the funds.
Total sum of Fifteen Million, Seven Hundred and Forty Five Thousand British
Pounds (15.745)BP has been diverted, representing 1.2% of Excess Return
Capital Funds from the Investor Capital Project Funds for 2006/2007 fiscal
year.
I need a reliable and trustworthy person with whom I can work this deal out
so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above.
There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be dictated or
traced.

If interested in my proposal do forward your positive response through
fidelity003@telegraf.by
If you are willing, please send your information and your direct telephone
numbers for discussion of this deal in details.

Sincerely,

Tim McCarron

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