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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: Trading Company Sinosteel <wongch100@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:58:32 +0800 (CST)
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE SHEME


SINOSTEEL TRADING COMPANY
IMPORT & EXPORT CORPORATION (SSTCIEC)
7th Floor, ChinFung Tower
101 Cheung Sha Wan Road,
Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Thanks for your response to our proposal.This organisation, is a registered public liability company ,our mode of operation is basically according to our client specification.we have workers that we deal with directly from the local set up where we handle the buying and selling of our products.

We sell these products to our customers in canada/America/Europe on credit basis.What we are requesting personally is based on the scope of this organization and the mode of transaction with our client, we want you to act as our payment officers ,as your location shall determine.

As at the moment we cannot be paying you as one of our regular staff, but you will be strictly on commission basis, you will be entitled to 10% of any amount that you receive from our customers on our behalf , Note the management shall meet concerning your interest in our proposal as soon as the meeting is concluded we shall immediately send you a representative form/agreement letter,and also we shall send to you our company profile, subject to our satisfaction you will be appointed immediately.

you are to send to us your informations below:


Full Names:
Full Contact Address
Age
Sex:
Occupation:
Nationality:
Phone:
Fax: (if any)
Company Name (if any)

Thank you for your interest in our company.We anticipate your earliest response.

Thanks In advance.

Dr.Wong Cheng

Note: All corespondence will be treated with strict confidence

www.cmiec.com

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