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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: "Elizabeth Seung" <lizabethseung@emc-machinery.net>
Reply-To: elizabethseung@emc-machinery.net
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:20:28 +0000
Subject: Agent Services

I am Elizabeth Seung of Ningbo Eternal Machinery Company Limited.
It is my pleasure to write to you in respect of our organization.

We are experts in the sale and manufacture of Pneumatic and Hydraulic
Components here in China. We export into Canada/America and some parts
in Europe.

Ningbo EMC is renowned for its efforts in creating brands that display
product quality and in doing so creating a niche. We are in the process
of tapping into thelucrative North American market. This is the next step
in realizing our underlying objective of establishing Ningbo EMC as a formidable
force in the world global market. In achieving this goal we will be initially
searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting our
funds from our newly acquired costumers around North America as well as making
payments through these representatives to us.

Please if interested in the fantastic opportunity of transacting
business between Ningbo EMC and prospective clients with the
aim of assisting these clients in making payment through you as
one of our payment representatives we will be glad. Compensations will
be given and other benefits.

Please do not hesitate to get in contact if this proposal is acceptable
to you.Please get back to us in the shortest possible time to enable us
tabulate remunerations for your services as our representative in Canada/America
as your location shall determine.

We anticipate your earliest response in this regard.

Yours Sincerely.
Miss. Elizabeth Seung
Sales.
Eco Power. Hong Kong
For Anthony Lee.
United Kingdom Chief Agent
25-11-05

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