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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: "John Allen" <wellkang_international02@msn.com>
Reply-To: john_allen002@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:39:19 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY

Dear Sir/Madam,


My Name is John Allen, the Director 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,Europe and Asia 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 and Asia 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.

But all we just need is trust,and i hope we can rely on you.

Please if you are interested do get back to me on my private
email(john_allen002@yahoo.co.uk)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.

John Allen.
Director WELLKANG INTERNATIONAL.
http://www.wellkang.com

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