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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: "info_shanghaicompany Ltd" <shanghaicompany901@gmail.com>
Reply-To: smmc_director@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:35:41 -0700
Subject: PAYMENT AGENT WANTED


*Shanghai Morgan Matroc Technical Ceramics Company., Ltd.
158 jiajian road,Shanghai
Tel:+86-21-5990036887,5990583647
Mobile:86- 1360167219469
Fax:+86-21-5970342641*

*Hello,*

* I represent Shanghai Morgan Matroc Technical Ceramics Co., Ltd, based
in the Shanghai, which specialize in the production of high quality
technical ceramic products and export into the CANADA,USA,JAPAN,DUBAI AND
OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. Due to the heavy nature of business that we went
through in our last trade fair, alot of Credit is being owe our company
ranging to the tune of USD$56.5 million. This amount is owed us by
individuals and co operate bodies( clients) all over Canada/America, Europe
and Asia continent . This has led us to recruit for the position of the
payment Agent in your country.
If you are interested in this Position,Send confirmation email to Mr
Antonio Fu,the Company Executive Directior:
**smmc_director@yahoo.com.cn*<smmc_director@yahoo.com.cn>
* ,, with the following details:

FULL NAME:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
TEL/FAX NUMBER:
BUSINESS EMAIL:
AGE:
SEX:
MARITAL STATUS:
FAMILY SIZE:
PRESENT EMPLOYER:
OCCUPATIONAL STATUS:
PRESENT INCOME:
COUNTRY:
CAN YOU TRAVEL OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY (Y/N):

He will be pleased to give you more informations on how to start as the
company Payment agent.

Yours Faithfully,
MR ANTONIO FU
Head of Admin Dept.*

* PLEASE NOTE:
SEND YOUR COMFIRMATION MAIL TO MR ANTONIO FU AT
**smmc_director@yahoo.com.cn* <smmc_director@yahoo.com.cn>*, *

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