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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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• 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 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.
  • tomewing231@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: TOM EWING <ewing534@msn.com>
Reply-To: <tomewing231@myway.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 01:16:56 +0000
Subject: RE :REPLY ME NOW



Fidelity Investments International25 Cannon StreetLondon EC4M 5TA Dear Beloved , know you will definitely take this as a deceptive e mail,because of the swindle news we hear everyday and now it happens am from United Kingdom where it seems to happen more often.Let me first of all inform you, i got your e.mail id from a mail directory and decided to e.mail you for a permission to go ahead for you have to agree with me that that is the easiest way to communicate with you for i don't have any of your contacts. I am Mr.Tom Ewing,Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment International.The World Largest Funds Management Company with over $1.2Trillion Capital Investment Funds. Neverthless, as Fidelity Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.As an expert,I have made over $44.4m 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, Meanwhile,I have worked out the strategies and technincalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches.Our sharing ratio will be 40-60 while 0.5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction. Still ,I implore you on your own to think about this transaction carefully because to work as a team is preferable.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 the fund in question. If you are interested, please contact me by mail through my Official mail address: tomewing231@myway.com, For discussion of this transaction in further details or we can arrange on how we can meet one on one for identification purposes.With profound humility, I tender 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 preferable that we keep this business private.Sincerely.Mr.Tom EwingReply To;tomewing231@myway.comFunds Manager of Fidelity Investment International.www.fidelity-international.com

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