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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Mai Angelo" <angelo.mai3@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mai_angelo4@walla.com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:27:40 -0800
Subject: Email from Angelo Mai

Dear Sir,
I am Mai Angelo , 32 year from Luxembourg United Kingdom, I am working with Golden shipping company here in London,
Actually am in need of some one who is reliable and capable of handling a contract business in Asian region.At the moment i
have a contract business of a supply in the shipping company here am working, and am ready to give you this contract business depending on your
interest, Really this is a straight forward business which will be of a good dividends to both of us.
I got this supply contract with a Golden shipping company in London here .to supply a product called AQUA-CHIPS , This product is a navigating
product which directs the ship in motion while traveling, ` It will be my pleasure to do this contract with you, as i know that
this contract is going to be a continues contract and am willing to introduce you to other shipping companies here depending on the
terms of agreement we are going to reach. Right now i have discovered where we can get this product at a cheaper
rate in Malaysia, I have spoken to the engineers and they have agreed to go to Malaysia to buy, Now the issue is that i don't have the
capital to execute this contract, so i need you to stand as the distributor of the Aqua -chips by buying it out from the distributors there
in Malaysia Asia and resell to the engineers, a bottle of this product is soled 2050 Malaysian dollars and it is 30 bottles in one carton, In this you will be buying a carton 61,500
Malaysian dollars while you will be reselling to the engineers at the price of 5700 Malaysian dollars per bottle which is about 17000 Malaysian
dollars per carton, and the engineers will be buying more than 3 cartons
in each trip they come to buy from you Please my dear I really want some one who is capable to handle this contract because is not a small contract .
and i really don't want the engineers to go directly to the seller in Malaysia and find out how much the distributor sell this
product, because this will affect the business and it will affect me here in the company because i have already told them a bottle of aqua chips is
5700 to 6000 there in Malaysia, so please let me know your interest before i can review all information to you
best regards
Mrs.Mai Angelo

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