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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 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.
  • michealgordon1@gmail.com
  • 3amichealgordon1@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Micheal Gordon" <michealgordon@gala.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:16:18 -0700
Subject: Partnership Proposal...


*Michael Gordon
Fidelity-International
25 Cannon St.,
EC4M,5TA,UK,
London

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.


Sincerely,

Michael Gordon
Email:michealgordon1@gmail.com <Email%3Amichealgordon1@gmail.com>
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