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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • cmechubei_wang@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CMEC HUBEI CO." <cmechubei10013@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:23:23 -0800
Subject: OFFER TO ACT AS PAYMENT REPRESENTATIVE!!!

 

 

Hubei Machinery & Equipment
CMEC Hubei Co. Ltd.
179-178 Guang'anmenwai Street
Beijing 100055.
China
March 2007.
www.cmec.com

 

Dear Prospective Representative,

 

OFFER TO ACT AS PAYMENT REPRESENTATIVE

 

 I am Mr. Lee Wang, Director of Recruitment, Hubei Machinery, Equipment import & export Corporation (CMEC HUBEI CO.) We are a company who deal on Mechanical equipment, Hardware and minerals, Electrical products, Medical & Chemicals, Light industrial products and Office equipment and export into the Canada/America/UK and Europe.

Presently, we are faced with some problems most especially with our payment methods as most clients we have in the United States & Canada prefer to pay us with Electrinic Funds Transfer. We find it very cumbersome in accepting such payments due to the monetary policies in our banking systems here in China and this is crippling our business.

We have numerous customers in the United States/Canada  and we cannot afford to loose them
due to this problem.

 

We hereby request for your hand in partnership to act as our payment Representative (for CMEC Hubei Co. Ltd), with specific duties of receiving payment on our behalf from our customers. You shall be entitled to 10% of each payment you receive on our behalf and this shall be a continuous process.

To indicate your interests please send us a mail via:

 

 My personal email: cmechubei_wang@yahoo.com.cn

 

I want to assure you that this will be of no Cost to you and there will
be reward for the assistance you will render.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Mr. Lee Wang,
Director of Recruitment
Tele/Fax: +852-301-43297
CMEC Hubei Co. Ltd

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