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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.
  • transcorpfinancehomeinc10@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: TRANSCORP FINANCE HOME INC <transcorpfinancehomeinc10@gmail.com>
Date: 18 May 2008 12:34:08 -0000
Subject: ATTENTION

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




Our Ref: TFH™/wfb/lf/memo:00021200. MEMO: 2008-1st Quarter-Online Search and Certification Exercise. Greetings, I am Mr.Peter Robert, I am the ceo of Transcorp Finance Home Inc.™,financed by Wells Fargo Bank,Wells Fargo: 1 California Street, San Francisco, CA. 94111,we issue loans to applicants, who have filled our form and accepted our terms and condition. We are in search of representatives who would assist the company in receiving loan payment and sending to applicant, currently we have over 35 applicants waiting confirmation. All you have to do is receive loan payment from us, take off 15% which would be your commission payment and you have the rest sent to the applicants on which informations and instruction of where the money would be sent to would be given to you. If you are interested in this, do get back to me with the information below for our record purposes and background verification:-



First Name:...............................



Surname:.................................

Residential Address:.....................................................



Phone:.....................................



Age:..........................



Mail the above information to: transcorpfinancehomeinc10@gmail.com Do get back to me if you are interested with what the company has to offer.Note no this would in no way affect your current job, its a contract base job. Regards, Mr.Peter Robert CEO(GENERAL MANGER) TRANSCORP FINANCE HOMES Inc.™ e-MAIL: transcorpfinancehomeinc10@gmail.com

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