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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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• 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.
  • +447035951843 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: DR HADOC WISE <hadocwise3@q.com>
Reply-To: <dr_hadocwise@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:02:03 +0000
Subject: FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INTERNATIOAL URGENT RESPOND




Fidelity Investments International
Oak hill house, 130 Ton bridge,
Hildenborough.Kent TN119DZ,
United Kingdom,
Telephone +44-7035951843

Attn: My Dear

With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings, and I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and immense benefit.

I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy; if this contact is not acceptable to you First and foremost I wish to introduce my self properly to you. I am Dr. HADOC WISE, the Funds manager, Fidelity International Investments LONDON, the World Largest Funds management with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital Investment Funds. Nevertheless, as Fidelity Funds Manager, I handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 3.2 percent Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of investor's Magellan Capital Funds.

an expert, I have made over 49.8million GBP from the investor's EMCRP and hereby looking for some one to trust who can stand as an investor to receive the funds as annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Magellan 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 strategies and technicalities 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 percent will be for expenses during the process of transaction.

If you are interested in handling this life changing and promising transaction of mine, email me your direct telephone number for discussion of this deal in further details.

I will Attached is my ID and Passport for your references as i hear your response.

Sincerely,
Dr. HADOC WISE
Telephone +44-7035951843

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