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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:

• 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.
  • mrharley_hilgard101@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "fiderlity_groups" <mrharley_hilgard101@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:03:08 -1200
Subject: FROM FIDERLITY INVESTMENT INT'L


Attention:

Dear partner
I am mr harley hilgard,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 negiotiable 10% will be for
expenseS during the process of the transaction. Should
incase you are interested,Please email me your direct
telephone number for discussion of this transaction in
further details.
Reply to :mrharley_hilgard101@yahoo.co.uk
Sincerely.
Mr harley hilgard.
www.fidelity-international.com










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