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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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

Fraud email example:

From: "Shima Company Ltd." <no-reply@shima-corp.co.jp> (may be fake)
Reply-To: shima_corp01@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:38:35 -0700
Subject: About Us

SHIMA COMPANY LTD.
260 Tsurumaki Omika Haramachi-Ku
Minamisoma Fukushima-Pref.
Tel: +81-244-23-6244
Fax: +81-244-23-1854
shima_corp01@yahoo.co.jp


***ABOUT US***
Shima Company Ltd. is one of Japan's leading suppliers of used vehicles, heavy equipment, and used engines and auto parts. The company exports assembled vehicles and heavy equipment as well as engines and other parts, completely knocked down (CKD) and semi-knocked down (SKD) trucks to more than 100 countries across the world. When Shima Company Ltd. came onto the scene in 1980, the only traders of used car parts in Japan were foreigners, mostly from Thailand, who exported recycled or used parts to their home countries. Shima was one of the first Japanese businessmen to enter this market. Shima Company Ltd. received certification in 2004 to recycle automobiles and bought 99,173.7 square meters of land to build their car disassembly and recycling factory, one of the largest of its kind in Japan. The company met the requirement for ISO9001 in 2003 and ISO14001 in 2004.

***HOW WE SELL OUR PRODUCTS***
We get most of our products at auctions and motor shops, and we sell them all over the world -- to United States, South-East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Engines are the most popular car part we export, and they usually fill up 70 to 80 percent of the containers we send abroad. I hear that a lot of cab drivers in America/Canada use the same car for two or three generations, and they just need to get a new engine now and then to keep it running. So we have being able to help fill that need. In other countries, they lug these car engines up in the mountains and use them to power heavy-construction equipment.

***WHY WE NEED YOUR SERVICE***
Due to the increase demand of our products in America/Canada, we now have the need to hire an offshore Representative who can serves as our United States/Canada Regional Financial/Processing manager. Working on this post, our customrs in the US/Canada region will provides you with the work of checks/bank transfer payments for the products ordered or purchase from us. Our customers are private persons and companies of the different States in the US/Canada region, and for the simplification of payments we use our Regional Financial/Processing manager.

If you are interested to work with us, kindly reply us with your personal, work and contact details in full in order to facilitate the immidiate commencement of your working with us. Your details should be in the below format:

- YOUR FULL NAMES:
- SEX:
- AGE:
- CONTACT DETAILS:
- NATIONALITY:
- OCCUPATION:
- POSITION HELD:
- TEL & FAX NUMBERS:
- ANY MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION:

We will appreciate your response regarding this mail ASAP.

Regards,


Hashime Shima
President/CEO
SHIMA COMPANY LTD.
JAPAN.


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