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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 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.
  • +447011139289 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • timothymccarron@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Timothy Mccarron <timothymccarron@q.com>
Reply-To: <timothymccarron@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:12:05 +0000
Subject: HELLO



Fidelity Investments InternationalOak hill House, 130 Ton Bridge,Hildenborough. Kent Tn119dz,United Kingdom.www.Fidelity-International.com
Attn:
I am Mr. Timothy Mccarron, a Fund Manager Of Fidelity Investment International. The world largest fund management company with over 2 Trillion Dollar Capital Investments Fund.
Nevertheless, as a Fidelity Fund Manager, I handle our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRC) Per Annum on each Of the Investor's Marginal Capital Fund. As an expert, I have made over? 28, 745, 000, 00 from the investor's EMRC and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an investor to receive the fund as annual investment proceeds from Fidelity Marginal 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 affiliated clearing houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be 60 for me, and 40 for your effort.If you are interested, send your contact telephone number so we could discuss more on phone as regard the transaction.
N:B; Do not contact my office number or email for any reason, mainly for security purposes, all correspondence must be through this private box. timothymccarron@myway.com
Yours truly,Mr. Timothy MccarronTel: +447011139289

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