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

Fraud email example:

From: "china arts" <chartsltd@planetchinaartsandcrafts.com>
Reply-To: sinotradingsltd@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:59:13 +0000
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED (URGENTLY)

   Hello,

     I am Mr Brown Lee ,managinig director of sino steal tradings

Product Co. Ltd.we are a group of business men

who privately own enterprise that specializes in the

production of shelf equipment, shopping carts, cashier

tables and retail shelving  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 you for your services as our

representative in Canada/America and Europe Please if you

are interested forward to us your phone number/fax and your

full contact address.

Thanks In advance

Managing Director,

Brown Lee

If you are intrested in acting as our representative in

your region,you can mail us through this direct mail

address.

sinotradingsltd@yahoo.com

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