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

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "cheques " (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: CONTINENTAL ZANS <tanglee200@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:36:58 +0800 (CST)
Subject: IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU AS A REPRESENTATIVE.


ZAN CONTINENTAL.
ATTN: VICTIM-FULLNAME,

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER.
First I must thank you for considering the offer to be our agent via our customers who are already and able to pay some of our outstanding bills. Your role in this endeavour is to serve as our agent to get to our customers who have been indebted to us over a considerable lenght of time and help stand as an agent through which they will make such payments to us.

As our representative; you are expected to recieve payment of our balance fund whenever a client is directed to you and also demand that payment should be made through you to us.

Your reward for helping us collect such an outstanding debt will be 10% of whatever money that is being paid to our Company through your Account. You will be given adequate co-ordinates and banking instructions through which you will remit our balance 90% from your Account to us.

Please be advised that we will have to begin the necessary process of approving you as our agent/partner on our receipt of your transparency, honesty and your sincere abilities in the disharge of your first assignment.
You are required to provide us your Location/contact address, phone number to
enable one of our client contact you towards making payment.

Our constraint has always been a method of payment by several of our foreign client who we supply our goods. We presently get our payments through cheques and drafts issued in our favour by our clients but the problem of delay is usually experienced as we are made to wait for up to one month before our local banks here clear the checks/draft.

We are loosing a lot of money by doing this as most of our money is produced as short term loan and overdraft from the banks with high interest rate.

We will inform you on the next step to follow as regards our approval for you to be
our representative.

Expecting your response.

Sincerely.
Tang Lee.
(Foreign Transaction Officer)
ZAN CONTINENTAL..
Freight Fwdg. Svcs.


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