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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: "charles jerry" <charlesjerry4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: charlesjerry55@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:43:58 +0200
Subject: administrative offer

Dear Sir,

My name is Charles Jerry, Managing Director in a
company that sells Chinese and African textile and
fabric material in Japan ( Shinyang Japan Ltd.) I got
your contact through our Ministry of Trade and
Commerce with your country on my request to get a
trustworthy representative in USA that can help as a
link between us and our propective clients in USA. We
will like to know if you are interested to work for us
>from home. We needs a book-keeper or representative in
the USA, in this process therefore, you would be
working from home without affecting your present job.

We produce various clothing materials, batiks,
assorted fabrics and traditional costumes. We have
clients we supply weekly to the USA and my supposedly
make payments for our supplies every week though due
to Foreign Exchange Control, we cannot receive huge
transfers of funds from there so we need someone in
the USA to work as our representative and assist us in
processing the payments from our clients and we will
pay 10% of every payment received on daily basis.

At this stage therefore, you are to forward your
contact information to us, so we can commence the
process of relevant Agreements that would bind us for
security reasons.

Yours sincerely,

Charles Jerry.

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