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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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Fraud email example:

From: "ERICSON SAMORE" <eriocosa@eriocosa.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:26:17 +0000
Subject: be our rep

EMAIL:getoeriocosa@hotmail.com
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Eric Samore,Director,Customer Business Unit
of Wellkang International.We are a group of business men who deal
on consumer goods commodities as well as label production and
certification of industrial products from highly using world-class
manufacturing (WCM) methods such as single minute exchange of die (SMED)
from Art and Craft processes with
production of Rubber and PVC profiles, seals and body
trimmings for automobiles and export into the Canada/America and
Europe.
I am currently running my business from my Newton
Abbot,UK Office where I am located for now.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.
We are searching for credible representatives who can
help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in the Canada,USA and
a large part
of Europe as well as recieving payments from our
esteemed clients/customers as a result of expansion of our
services and streamlining of our official task/routines before us.
Please if you are interested in transacting business
with us, we will be very glad and open to accept you into our business
team with 10% benefit to you from any payment recieved from our
esteemed customers to you on behalf of our Company.
Please if you are interested forward to us your phone
number/fax and
your full contact addresses.Please note that your
areas of specialization or occupation is of no relevance to resolve to
assisting us.
Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation.
Mr George coleman.
Director:Customer Business Unit.
WELLKANG INTERNATIONAL
http://www.wellkang.com
FOR SAFETY AND CONFIDENTIAL REASONS PLEASE SEND YOUR
RESPONSE TO ONLY
MY DIRECT AND CONFIDENTAIL EMAIL ADDRESS AT:
getoeriocosa@hotmail.com

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