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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: david wood <d.wood11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <davidwood_private@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 15:55:52 +0200
Subject: EMAIL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!



SHANGHAI TOYS IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY LIMITED, CHINA.(STIEC)HONG KONG OFFICE:6/F, Tung Chai Building,86-90 Wellington Street,Central, Hong Kong.Attn: Sir/Madam:I represent the above named Company (STIEC) based in China. We are intoimportation and exportation of professionally handling toys and lightindustrial products import and export business. This company possessesthe ability of designing toy products, making models and organizingproduction with a number of co-operative factories especially inEurope, America and Canada.We are therefore pleased to inform you that vacancies exist in our foreign department as offshorerepresentatives. We would be very glad if you accept to be appointed as our representative in your country and earn 10% of every payment madethrough you to our office. Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to correspond with our customer (s).A BRIFE INTRODUCTION ABOUT STIEC.We are seeking for a representative in United States and Canada whose responsibility would be to receivepayment on our behalf. That of course we shall open correspondence between you and our various customers in the North America region andsome part of Europe.By this you will be required to act as our representative in your country, you will be required to receive anddisburse funds on our behalf with a commission of 10% in all transaction carried out by my firm in your country.In acceptance to our proposal, we shall send you our company representative draft letterof agreement designed for perusal and endorsement for our acceptedrepresentative. That you will receive as soon as you send us your fullcontact details. We will be expecting an enclosed profile of yourbusiness and all details to ease communication between us.Information required from you is as follows which you have to send to this email address:davidwood_private@yahoo.com1. Your full names and location.2. Contact Address3. Your telephone and fax number (s)4. Marital Status.5. Your Age.6. Occupation.7. Bank name and Address.Thank you in advance as i look forward to hear from you urgently.Thanks,Mr. Romeo LeeBranch Managing Director,SHANGHAI TOYS IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANYLIMITED, CHINA.(STIEC)HONG KONG BRANCH OFFICE:6/F, Tung ChaiBuilding, 86-90 Wellington Street,Central, Hong Kong.Fax: +852-301-46209http://www.shanghaitoys.com
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