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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "money order " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Chang Frank <frank_changhk3@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:12:05 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Ref: HK244 USA/CANADA.


Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME,

Thanks alot for your swift response to my proposition. We are prepared to engage your services as our Representative for CANADA & USA,after putting things in place with you and we are also ready to follow every applicable laws of CANADA & UNITED STATES. We would be glad to deal with you and having you as our representative for this region.

Before I proceed further let me start by Introducing myself. My name is Frank Chang, I am the vice president of Hong Kong Mettalurgical Import & Export Company. About our line of business, My company export raw materials such as Iron Ore,Calcite,Barytes,Manganese Dioxide,Dolomite Mica,China Clay,Mangnese Dioxide,Ferrous (Iron ) Oxide directly from Hong Kong to Canada and the United States . The various industries we cater for includes Paints, Rubber, Plastics,Construction & chemicals industries.

We need a reliable and compentent representative to make collection on our behalf and acting under the full approval of our firm after all necessary modalities have being put in place between you and the company and after entering into an agreement confirming this deal.We are currently having problems between our local staffs overhere in Hong Kong and customers from these regions as a result of language barrier and different cultural backgrounds thereby causing delays in our payments from our propespective customers from this region.

On the advice of an expert we started making neccessary contact to prospective candidate that will make direct collections on our behalf for a commission of 10% and remitting the balance into our account via electronic transfer, so that we can serve our customers in this region more efficiently as a result of the fast means of picking up our cash thereby allowing for a constant cash inflow as well as outflows and making business more profitable and beneficial for all parties involved. Clients normally make payment to us via Companies Check,Personal check or money order which will we would instruct them to issue in your favour in the capacity of our representative for this region.

This is exactly how our transaction will hold,If you feel you can carry out this responsibility kindly lets hear from you Asap and provide me with your following details as we have several customers that are ready to make their payments so long as we can fix them up to our agent in this region.Kindly send your following details:

1.Full Name
2.Contact address
3.Company name
4.Phone:& Fax Number
5.Your Scanned copy of ID, This could be either of your International Passport or Drivers License.


On agreement, You shall be collecting payments on our behalf depending on the client we have at hand and as well as the volume of transaction involved, We normally handles transaction for now to a maximum of USD$1,000,000.00 and below As the case maybe.As your 10% will be applicable for any amount of funds collected on our behalf after signing a Legal Agreement between all parties involved and remitting the balance into an account provided for you by the firm via electronic wire transfer. After re-confirming your requested details I will be having the liberty to discuss with you personally over the phone for further instructions.

I await your timely response if you feel you can act on this capacity and please always quote this Ref: HK244 USA/CANADA.On every one of our correspondences hencefort as it represents your REPRESENTATIVE CODE at our firm.

Regards,

Frank Chang,
Vice President
Hong Kong Mettalurgical Import & Export Company
Tel:+852-301-59718
Fax:+852-301-59718


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