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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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• 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.
  • ssb123steel@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: John James <ssbsteel@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:26:39 -0400
Subject: JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP


SOUTHERN STEEL BERHAD COMPANY12 Jalan Juruhebah U1/50Temasya Industrial ParkSection U1, 40150 Shah AlamSelangor Darul EhsanMalaysia.www.southsteel.com JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP We at the SOUTHERN STEEL BERHAD COMPANY, a foremost & leading steel company in Asia with wide range of steel products (such as : Crane Rails, Carbon steel pipe , stainless steel pipe and fittings, ingots, mild steel round bars, high-yield Reformed bars, light section and wire rods ranging from very low carbon to high carbon and cold heading steel. ) and we are based in Malaysia. As a result of remarkably huge successes , continuous increases in profit over the years and having one of the best balance sheet in the industry with increasing capital base, the board has decided to diversify its interest in furtherance of our objective of placing the company as a global player in the industry. For this purpose, the sum of $25million has been earmarked by the board to be invested in your company, our London office has been assigned to take up this project and see that dredible candidates are chosen for this purpose. We are writing to let you know that we are looking for suitable & capable candidates (individuals or organizations) who are interested in partnering with us in the investment of this sum ($25million). This venture will be carried out in uch a way that the sucessful firm to get this fund will handle the project 100% with very minimal intervention from our company. For full details about this investment fund write to the corresponding email address: ssb123steel@gmail.com Thanks hope to hear from you. JOHN JAMES ,PRESIDENT .
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