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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 (3 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "visa credit card" <recruitment@ukvisacreditcard.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:23:25 +0000
Subject: VISA CARD AGENT NEEDED.

 

    Visa Credit  Card.
    Bridgegate House
    124-126 Borough High Street 
    London, SE1 1BL 
    United Kingdom.
    OurRef: VCC/UK/00720X2/74.

 

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mrs. Jessica Williams Cole, Foreign Transaction Officer to the Visa Credit  Card United Kingdom Regional Branch. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in 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 most glad to be your partners.All you need do,Open a New Visa Credit Card Only with a limit of $10,000 USD on it but make sure you have no money on the credit card after opening it. It should be empty. 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 10%(percent) of any payment made through you and a monthly allowance of $2,500 USD for your services as our representative in Canada, America and Europe.
Please be advised that we will have to begin the necessary process of approving you as our agent/partner on our receipt of your understanding,transparency, honesty and your sincere abilities.

 

If you are interested, kindly forward your full names,direct phone number/fax and your full contact addresses with subject as UK/VISA/05AGENT, to our agent recruitement department online via email: ukvisacardrecruitment@yahoo.co.uk

 

Please note that your areas of specialization or occupation is of no relevance to resolve to assisting us.
Thanks in advance.

 

Sincerely,
Mrs. Jessica Williams Cole.
(Foreign Transaction Officer).

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