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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:

• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.

Fraud email example:

From: pang lee <panglee1f@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BIGLOBE DETAILS


Our great appreciation and thanks on your candid
consideration to be our
Payment officer/ Agent to our customers who are
already due and able to pay
some of their outstanding bills.
Let me crave your indulgence to introduce our
organisation.,Biglobe Inc. started
several years ago.It is into the production and sale
of Art/Art work and Crafts.visit our website :-
http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~maida/j-art/.
Your role in this project, is serving as our agent to
get to our customers who buy our product and helping
in
collecting their outstanding money which they owe to
our company,
you will be given a commission of 10% for any payment
made to you
and you will be given instruction on how to remitt the
balance funds
to us in turn.
Please be adviced that we will have to begin the
necessary process of
approving you as our agent/partner on our receipt of
your
understanding and your sincere abilities. Upon receipt
of your mail we will inform you on the next step to
follow as regards our approval and other Official
processes.
Meanwhile you can as well forward a detailed information about your self (i e your full name, address ,phone number etc) so that we can continue with our verification. And always use your reference number as you write to us.
Get back to me as soon as possible so that i can fushion you with the next step to follow.
Appreciation.
Pang Lee
Biglobe Inc


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