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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 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.
  • mrkazuo_yamauchi@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kazuo Yamauchi" <mrkazuo_yamauchi@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrkazuo_yamauchi@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:33:12 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Kazuo Yamauchi, Director of SHINYEI KAISHA GROUP.

SHINYEI KAISHA GROUP is a premier global trading group managing the supply
chain for high-volume, time-sensitive consumer goods. Shinyei is now a
fully-fledged group of companies involved in a wide range of activities in
such industries as textiles and apparel, foodstuffs, housing materials and
electronics, with plans for further expansion into health and environmental
fields, in line with its mission to make new value through creation.
We are searching for representatives who can help us reach our costumers in
the Canada, America and Europe as well as making payments through you to us.
If you are interested in transacting business with us we will be glad.

The major objective of sending you this mail is that we need affiliates as
our payment representative, who will be collecting payment from client who
we have supplied products.Then you will earn 10% of every payment made
through you.

This is because transfering money from u.s and canada to an international
account takes too long to reflect, whereby delaying other transactions with
our money. We resulted to sending you this mail because some of our clients
are very eager to pay, as the payment has long overdue and as such is
slowing down further transactions with them.

If you are interseted, the following data is needed from you as to you
register you with our company:
1). FULL NAMES:
2). DATE OF BIRTH:
3). SEX:
4). MARITAL STATUS:
5). FULL POSTAL ADDRESS:
6). TELEPHONE NUMBER:
7). OCCUPATION:
8). BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:
9). ANNUAL INCOME:
10). A SCANNED OF ANY LEGAL IDENTIFYING DOCUMENT.
The money involved in the kind of business we transact is large, so it is
neccesary for us to be sure of the person to whom we will be entrusting this
transaction with. Our trust is not given out lightly, we need to be
convinced that you are a matured person with some intergrity.


Please contact us for more information, Subject to your satisfaction; you
will be given the opportunity to negotiate the mode of which we will pay for
your services as our representative.

If you are interested, please contact us immediately by email at
mrkazuo_yamauchi@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance,
Kazuo Yamauchi,
Director,
SHINYEI KAISHA GROUP,
77-1 Kyomachi, Chuo-ku,
Kobe 651-0178 Japan.



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