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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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Fraud email example:

From: "CHINA METALLURGICAL IMPORT AND EXPORT CORPORATION" <cmiec_office@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: cmiec_representatives@yahoo.com, cimportexportco@excite.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:47:13 -0700
Subject: XXXXMetallurgical Import XXExport Corporation(customer services representatives WANTED)

CHINA METALLURGICAL IMPORT AND EXPORT CORPORATION

ATTN:SEEKING PROSPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES AROUND THE WORLD

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This organisation is a registered Public Liability Company with Directors and Board of
Management.Our mode of operation is basically according to our client's specification.
We have workers that we deal with directly from the local set up where we handle the buying
and selling of our products.We sell these products to our customers in Canada/America/Europe
on credit basis. CMIEC is an up-coming corporation trying to find it's feet in a highly competitive
market and we are poised for the challenges. We are into export of materials like crystal
crucibles,some raw materials and fibres,and own an affiliate arts gallery that caste bronze in the
Western Africa. In times past, we have ventured into transactions with some oversea customers
and money collection from them has been difficult as we were just operating from China but just
gaining grounds of recent.We want to spread our reach to all parts of the United States,United
Kingdom,Europe,Canada and other parts of the world.This is why we seek reputable
representatives. What we are requesting personally is that, based on the scope of this organization
and the mode of transaction with our client, we want qualified and accountable candidates to act
as our payment officers in their various countries.As at the moment, we cannot be paying you as
one of our regular staff but you will be strictly on commission basis, you will be entitled to 15%
of the invoice value on all businesses introduced by you. You will be paid handling fee of 2% on
all money that goes through the bank account opened by you on your behalf. All payments will
be made by us within 30 days of receipt of all monthly invoices. Having come to a Board
conclusion to have you as a Partner/representative after showing your interest,we oblige you to
send,to the HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER,the following:
1)YOUR FULL NAMES AS IT APPEARS ON YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
2)DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBERS
3)PHYSICAL MAILING ADDRESS
4)ANY FORM OF IDENTIFICATION(scanned via mail).This will be due to VERIFICATION.
5)A RECENT COPY OF TAX RECEIPT PAID BY YOU IN YOUR COUNTRY
6)A DETAILED RESUME
On verification of all information,you will be notified on the need to move ahead .
Sincerely,
Karnavati Dyoung
Human resources manager
China Metallurgical Import & Export Corporation(CMIEC).

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