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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: louis obi <louisobi001@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:47:06 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY


>From MR.Louis Ahmed
Fidelity Investments International
Oakhill house Uk.

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am MR.Louis Ahmed,The Fund Manager of
Fidelity Investment International Uk.Fidelity Investment International is
the World Largest Fund Management Company with over £1.2Trillion Capital
Investment Fund. Neverthless, as The Fidelity Fund Manager, I handled all
our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess
Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's
Marginal Capital Fund.

As an expert,I have made over £21, 745, 000, 00 from the Investor's EMRCP
and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to
receive the fund as Annual Investment Proceeds from Marginal Fidelity
Capital Fund.

All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to
you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile,I have worked out the modalities and
technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing
Houses without any hitches.Our sharing ratio will be 60-40.

If you are interested,you should reply back immediately and as well include
your direct phone number so we could discuss more as regard the transaction.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr. MR.Louis Ahmed
Fund Manager Executive
Fidelity Investment UK
www.fidelity.co.uk
www.fidelityinternational.com

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