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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Yo chang Lee" <yochang101@msn.com>
Reply-To: yochan_lee2001@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:43:31 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal!!!

Dear Intended partner.,

On behalf of China HuaMao Arts & Crafts Organisation, it‘s our pleasure to introduce to you our new sales/marketing initiative as we are world leading producer and export of artificial arts and crafts. The company maintains a comprehensive database of inter-national trade in artificial arts and crafts, we export into Canada/America and some parts of Europe.

We are surfing for genuine and honest agents who are capable of sales and marketing of our goods and services in what ever location they are.

Our motive is to start off from collections of outstanding accounts owed by various customers willing to make out payments now after which agents shall be promoted to sales/marketing section of this programme based on their credibilities/accountabilities of accounts collected/retrieved.

Please if you are interested reply by email with your phone/fax number and your full contact addresses and note ,there is no obligation whatsoever.

A remuneration can be worked out for your services as our overseas representative. We anticipate your earliest response in this regard.

Yo Chang Lee

CEO HuaMao Arts & Crafts

No.46 Shangnan Road, Shanggan Town

Minhou County Fujian,China

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