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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: Heinrich Reents <reents4@msn.com>
Reply-To: <hreents@yahoo.it>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:30:51 +0000
Subject: Reply soon!!!



Hello, I am Dr. Heinrich Reents, Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment International UK.
The World Largest Funds Management Company with over £2.6Trillion Pounds Capital Investment Funds. Nevertheless, 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 Eighteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand Pounds(£18.500,000) 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 technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our Six Investment Clearing Bank without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be 30% - 70% while 0.5% will be for expenses during the process of the transaction. Should incase you are interested, Please provide me your direct telephone number for discussion of this transaction in further details. Kindest Regards.Dr. Heinrich Reents.Website: www.fidelity-international.comFunds Manager of Fidelity Investment International UK.

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