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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a check fraud / representative scam (5 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "chin wong" <chinwong@wongelectronicscompany.com>
Reply-To: wongelectroinccompanyinc@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:27:41 +0000
Subject: INQUIRY!!!

Dear friends
 
 I am Mr CHIN WONG ,managinig director of japan
 National electronics Import./Export. Corp. we are a group of
 business men who deal on Art and Craft and export into the
 Canada/America and Europe.
 
 We are searching for representatives who can help us
 establish a medium of getting to our customers in the
 Canada/America and Europe as well as making payments through you to us.Please if
 you are interested in transacting business with us we will be very
 glad.
 Please contact us for more information.
 Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the
 opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your
 services as our representative in Canada/America and Europe and  Please if you are interested forward to us your phone number/fax and
 your full contact addresses. Thanks In advance,
 
 Managing Director,
 
 Mr.CHIN WONG,
 Please for the sake of confidentiality i would prefare you to
 reply me via my private email; wongelectroinccompanyinc@gmail.com

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