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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: HANLONG COMPANY LTD <hanlongindustrialgroup03@yahoo.com.tw>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:40:07 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Further Informations: Your Ref:Ref:645/hicl


Your Ref:Ref:645/hicl
Atten: Mr Kalb,
First I must thank you for picking up the consideration to be our agent via our costumers who are already and able to pay some of our outstanding bills.
Surprise to say that your role in this endeavour is to serve as our agent to get to our customers who has been indebted to us over a considerable lenght of time and help stand as an agent through which they will make such payments to us.

Your reward for helping us collect such an outstanding debt will be 10% of whatever money that is being paid to our Company through your Account.

You will be given adequate coordinates and banking instructions through which you will remit our balance 90% from your Account to us.

Please be advised that we will have to begin the necessary process of approving you as our agent/partner on our receipt of your understanding, transparency, honesty and your sincere abilities.

The main reason why we are sourcing for your help as our Agent is because we are currently having tax problems with the government and as a result all our Company Accounts worldwide are under strict watch and scrutiny, based on an unecessarily high progressive taxation rate which is politically motivated by masterminds in the government which our Company has fallen out of favour with.

On our receipt of your understanding/mail we will need some vital information from you that will enable us legitimise the process of this transaction, by drafting a Power of Appointment creating an Agency for the relationship of a Principal and Agent, also stating your benefits by way of Fiduciary gains or commission for your Fiduciary services.

Please send down the needed information;
Company name as a legal entity or your personal name acting in your personal capacity in the eyes of the law.

Contact Address, email address and tel/fax numbers.
Age, occupation and position in the Company (if you belong to a company).
A valid mode of Identification (e.g Drivers License, passport etc.) to this email id.
We will inform you on the next step to follow as regards our approval for you to be our representative, upon getting the above information from you and will also forward my own valid form of identification to you.

Note: Endeavour to indicate your reference number as above in all of your correspondence with us. I await your immediate response and a customer will soon make payment through you to us.
Regards

Mr.Frank Cheng
Managing Director



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