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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "SEIKA CORPORATION" <seikacorporation@msn.com>
Reply-To: seikacorporation@yahoo.de
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:34:11 +0000
Subject: BE OUR REPRESENTATIVE OFFICER IN YOUR COUNTRY

¼‰ØŽY‹ÆŠ”Ž®‰ïŽÐ    SEIKA CORPORATION 3-1,Marunouchi 3-chome,Chiyoda-ku,
                 P.O.Box: 100-0005 Tokyo Japan
            Fax: 2348026815012
  
Dear Sir/ Madam
                       BE OUR  REPRESENTATIVE OFFICER
 
You are welcome  to seika corporation Tokyo Japan. We deal on import and export of all kind of advance industral machinery,electronics and chemical substances for industrial used.
 
Due to the rate of spam and untrustly behavious of our former representative in africa, we are now making plan to globalised our company so we can reach our customers directly.Upon this, we hope of coming to your country to set up our branch by the begining of next year.
 
Presently we need you to represent us in your country as we have a customer in hand who will be paying in cheque for the goods we  export to them. Due to high risk of travelling at this xmas period ,language and time factors it will be more costly for us to send down our staff to catch the cheque in your country.
 Due to this the management of Seika Corporation , want you to represent the company in your country , as our representative officer in your country so as  to stand in-behalf of the company to catch / clear the cheque that our customer we be paying.
 
You do not need any primary experience before you can carryout this assignment cause we shall be feeding you with all the relevance information you shall need to enable you carry it out successfully.
 
Subject to your satisfaction you will giving the change to collect 10% of what ever amount of money you shall clear for the company and the balance you will  deposite to the company account we shall directed you to.
 
I will let you know at this piont that we are doing this at the very first time with you due to the urgency that we need to audit and balance our account for this year transaction, and we are going to be looking at your trust and kind of person you are. More shall come your way if you are trusted, you might be our zonal head at the company branch we are going to open in your country.
 
If you found this interesting and ready to show concern, do fill in your details into the form below and send it to us for further information.
NOTE : IT IS REQUIRED YOU CLICK THE REPLY BUTTON BEFORE FILLING OUT THIS FORM, AS ALL INPUTED DATA MAY BE LOST UPON OUR RECEPTION. IN THE EVENT THAT YOUR BROWSER SETTING DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM e.g html program, YOU ARE TO SEND THE REQUIRED DATA IN PLAIN TEXT FORMAT.
  Please fill in the appropriate information in the space below:
SEIKA REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE PROFILE
 
REPRESENTATIVE PERSONAL DATA
 
First Name.:    *
 
Middle Name.:            
Last Name.:                *
 
Gender.:       
 
Month Of Birth.:
Day:
Year:
 
Marital Status.:
Nationality.:    *
Religion.:      
Occupation.:    
 
Address 1.:*
Address 2.: 
City.:  *
State/Province.: *
Zip Code.:   *
 
Mobile phone No.: *
House Phone No.:  *
Fax No.:                
Email Address.:      * eg. username@domainname.com
 
OFFICE USED
File Name.:   
File Number.:  
Refrence Number.:
 
This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes:  No:
 
                                                


Masamitsu Sakurai
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer

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