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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: Yingshen Lee-Choi <yingshenoilfieldltd@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:38:19 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Position Is Still Available.


Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME.

Congratulations, i am confirming your acceptance to be a part of this great business venture and i humbly assure you that this will be one very productive partnership you will always remember as we move on further, your details will be safely documented and provided only to our customer ready to make payment,your name address, email contact and telephone number will be the only details provided to him, all other information are needed by us as security and to know how well you can handle large funds.

Your role as a representative is one very sensitive and requires someone with swift approach to receiving payments and also and returning funds, in a clearer statement, you should be able to make circulations of funds accurate and fast, also if possible be able to travel and receive from customers, that will even add increament on your % for travelling and other expense requirements, incase of occurance.

You main role is to receive funds in these details which you just provided from our customers or when you travel down to them, and as soon you receive funds, should be able to get payment in cash or if in cheque, cashed up and deduct your standard 10% from total sum then the balance sent to my company account which i will inform you about in later details,

Your % INCREAMENT, and funds you will make in a week or a month will determine on your swiftness in circulating these payments,If you are able to recieve and disburse payment up to 5/6 times in a month then you are bound to be given an award and % increase before the end of the year or quaterly lso most customers make payments up to hundreds of thousands, so i hope you will be able to handle such large amounts swiftly.

I will be expecting the necessary details below from you you ASAP, so we can commence soonest:
1, FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2, TELEPHONE NUMBER (HOME/OFFICE/CELL)
3, DATE OF BIRTH
4, ONE SCANNED COPY OF IDENTITY (EITHER DRIVERS LICENCE OR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT)
5, OCCUPATION (PRESENT EMPLOYMENT STATUS)
6, ANNUAL INCOME STATISTICS
I want to go through this email carefully and ask questions on any of the gray areas not understood so i could explain better, incase any customer contacts you,i will want you to show great interest and knowledge in this transaction, and respond back with him ASAP when ever this occurs, this also will give credits to your records.

Thanks and have a nice day.
Respectfully,
Mr Lee-Choi.





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