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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• 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.
  • +447031848996 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "gilliam brice" <gillibrice@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:22:19 +0300
Subject: My mail to you...


Hello,
I am Gillian Brice,Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment
International.The World Largest Funds Management Company with over $1.2
Trillion 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 60-40
while 0.5% will be for expenses during ction. Should incase you are
interested,Please email me back or call me on my moblie phone number
for discussion of this transaction in further details.
Sincerely.
Gillian Brice.
www.fidelity-international.com
+44 70 318 48996
+44 702 406 6470

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