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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.
  • +447547018767

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <micheal.gordon@live.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:24:39 +0000
Subject: PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL FROM MICHEAL GORDON



Fidelity-International
25 Cannon St.,
EC4M,5TA,UK,
London
Tel: +447547018767
Fax: +447014231631

Hello,

I am Michael Gordon, Global Chief Investment Officer Fidelity International Investments, The World

Largest Funds management with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital Investment Funds.Nevertheless,as the

Chief Investment Officer i handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2%

Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP) annually on each of investor's Magallan Capital Funds.

As an expert,i have made over 49.8million GBP from the investor's EMCRP and here by looking for a

contact to trust, who can stand as an investor to receive the fund as annual Investment Proceeds

from Fidelity Magallan Capital Funds.

All conformable documents to back up this claim will be made available to you prior to your

acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategy on where the funds can be claimed in any of

our 6 clearing houses without any hitch,Our sharing ratio will be 55-40 while 5% will be for expenses

incurred during the process of transaction.

In case you are interested, please email me your direct telephone number for discussions of this deal

in details.

N/B:
Sincerely,
Michael Gordon
Email: micheal.gordon@live.com

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