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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: "MR.FelixLane" <mrfelixlaneprivate@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:31:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: MR.FELIXLANE


Oakhill house,130 Tonbridge,Hildenborough.Kent TN119DZ,United Kingdom.Attn:I am Mr. Felix Lane ,The Fund Manager of Fidelity Investment International.The World Largest FundManagement Company with over1.2 Trillion Capital Investment Fund. Neverthless, as The Fidelity Fund Manager, I handle 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'sMarginal Capital Fund.As an expert,I have made over 45, 745, 000, 00 from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking forsomeone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the fund as Annual InvestmentProceeds fromFidelity Marginal Capital Fund.All confirmable documents to back up theclaims will be madeavailable to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile,I have worked out the odalities and technincalities whereby the funds can be claimed inany of our 6 learing Houses without anyhitches.Oursharing ratio will be 50-50. If you areinterested,you
should send your direct phone numberso we could discuss more on phone as regard the action.N:B; Do not contact my office number or email for any reason,mainly for security purposes,allcorrespondence must be through this private box.Regards, Mr.Felix Lane

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