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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: "jeffrey rice" <jeffreyrice_2@msn.com>
Reply-To: jrice_esq@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:15:50 +0000
Subject: CONTACT POLLO INTERNATIONAL URGENTLY

POLLO INTERNATIONAL COMPAN,
TEL +447031916470
FAX +447075055277

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Deacon Jeffrey Rice, Director, Business Development Unit of Pollo
International. We are a group of business men who deals on consumer goods,
commodities as well as label production and certification of industrial
products from using high world-class manufacturing (WCM) methods such as
single minute exchange of dye (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.

We are currently running our business from our Newton Abbot,UK Office where
We are located for now.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. If our request
is of appeal to you, Please, your urgent reply is needed as soon as
possible.

Please note that your areas of specialization or occupation is of no
relevance to resolve you becoming our overseas partner

Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation.

Deacon Jeffrey Rice
(Director)

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