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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:

• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• 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.
  • liu_peijin@linuxmail.org

Fraud email example:

From: "CMIEC HN IMPORT AND EXPORT HENAN COMPANY" <cmiec_hn@info-onlineworld.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:56:15 +0000
Subject: Be Our Representative

Hello,
I am Mr.Liu Peijin,managinig director of China Metallurgical Import &
Export Henan Company (CMIEC HN). we are a company who deal on
Furniture,plastic and export into the Canada/America and Europe.
I must first thank you for giving My Company the opportunity to lay our
proposal to you and hope you keep to instructions been passed to you either
from our customers we are to direct you to or from us and also hope you are
as reliable as we (China Metallurgical Import & Export Henan Company )have
sealed you to be.We are once again asking you to be our representative who
can help us establish
a medium of getting to our costumers in the Canada/America as well as making
payments through you to us.
Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be
glad. Please contact us for more information,Subject to your satisfaction
you will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will
pay for your services as our representative in Canada/America Please if you
are interested forward to us your phone number/fax and your full contact
addresses as we look forward to hearing your reply asap.

NOTE: Please forward your reply to my personal email:
liu_peijin@linuxmail.org

Thanks in advance
Mr.Liu Peijin
Managing Director
CMIEC HN



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