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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: Venture Hmarts <venturehmarts@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:05:02 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Your Details is Needed


Dear VICTIMNAME,

Thank you very much for your reply to my email and I appreciate your good sense of humour as you would want to know if the position is still available. Yes the position is still avaliable.

Firstly, I want you to understand your position in this transaction. You are to stand as a medium of payment between us and our costumers, that is, you are now our representative in your province, and all our costumers in your province will be instructed to begin remmiting their payment to you as soon as they can. Also regarding the legality of our products in our country, we are fully into legitimate transactions, and all our products are produce in a legal way, we also make our delivery according to the way of the laws, we cannot bridge or go against our law in any form, because the company is owed and run by group of business men not only in China but in some other parts of Asia, also there are people that are share holders in our company and some of these people are not from China, therefore we can never and has never indulge in any illegitimate transactions, please do note this.Furthermore, as I have explained earlier, you are not to deliver any goods for us, all we
want you to do is be our representative and as a medium of payment from our costumers in your province through you to us. We have had several cases of people refusing to make complete payment for goods delivered to them due to distance and as a result of this we resulted to seeking representatives to act as a medium of recieving payment from these costumers as they are somehow closer than to us.

As soon as payment is made to you I will instruct you on how to go about sending the funds after deducting your 10% from it. Please send me your Full details so that I can ask these costumers to begin contacting you for arrangement on how they will be making their payment.

I await your swift response to this email.

Regards,
Ichiro Zhang.




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