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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: "Hill Maxwell" <dratih6david@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hillsmaxwell@yahoo.com.ve
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:57:43 +0100
Subject: Re: Trusting to hear from you


Head of Investments,
Fidelity Investments International
Oakhill house,130 Tonbridge,
Hildenborough. Kent TN119DZ,
United Kingdom.

Dear,
I am Mr. Maxwell Hill, 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 $22.4m 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 50-50 while
0.5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction. Should
incase you are interested. Please email me your name, address etc, for
further details.

Regards.
Mr. Maxwell Hill

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