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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
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Fraud email example:

From: MondOffice Europe <m_europe36@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:05:51 -0400
Subject: THIS MIGHT INTEREST YOU!



Mondoffice s.r.l.Via per Gattinara,17 - 13851Castelletto Cervo (BI) Dear Sir/Madam,My name is Fillipo Antonio and I work for a company called Mondoffice Company.we searching for reliable professionals across the Europe, United states and Canada who are interested in a potentially lucrative partnership with an international firm. Mondoffice has developed a tradition of excellence and a national reputation for quality and with our unrivalled experience we provide the best choice of over 7,000 office products, at the best value with the absolute best service available anywhere. So whether you need office supplies, office furniture or the very latest technology products, and we are currently expanding our operations in some parts of Europe, Canada and the United States, But because of various banking and legalrestrictions, we are unable to open commercial bank accounts in every country.As such, Mondoffice. is recruiting partners to conduct simple banking transaction on our behalf.The process is simple. If you were interested in becoming a partner of Mondoffice, you would sign an agreement that would make you an official financial representative of our company, able to accept invoice payments on our behalf. Instead of asking our clients to conduct complicatedinternational payment transactions (which are especially complex for Italian companies), we have them work with our partners to submit payments. You would then forward the payments to us, a simple transaction for an individual.Mondoffice. pays its partners a 10% commission on every transaction. In addition, we will take care of any incremental tax liability you incur. Depending on which country you are in, and of course on how good business is, your monthly commissions could be as high as $10,000 per month.If you are interested kindly reply as soon as possible.Mondoffice has obtained your contact details from public internet sources. We thought that you could be attracted to part time work from home position with our company.I look forward to hearing from you soonThanks,Mr.Fillipo Antonio.Operation Manager,Mondoffice Company Europe.
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