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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mryileepark33334@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR YI PARK LEE" <yi@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mryileepark33334@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:31:32 -0530 (IST)
Subject: BE OUR AGENT!!!!

ALL RESPONSE SHOULD BE CHANNELED TO
mryileepark33334@hotmail.com
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am a legal Representative of China Metallurgical Import and Export
Company.They have requested that we-Grant Partners & Co Solicitors-act
on their behalf in recruiting capable and dynamic Sales Advisers.They
specialize in exporting quality products at relatively low prices. We
have been assigned the responsibility of helping them recruit Sales
Advisers in Europe and North America. Due to the ever-increasing
customer base in America,canada and Europe they are searching
for(sales)
representatives to assist in meeting the ever increasing customer
demand
for their products.Also it has been very difficult dealing with
customers in this region from China because of both time difference and
language barrier.Headquartered in Zhejiang China, we invite you to join
China Metallurgical as a Representative. If you opt to join China
Metallurgical as Representative,your basic task will be Processing
Orders and Receiving Payments on behalf of China Metallurgical.Please
note,in particular,that for every transaction processed,you will
receive
10% of the total amount.You can learn more about us
at:www.allproducts.com/prc/cmiezhejiang/supplier.html.
If this proposal sounds interesting to you, then take the first big
step
and contact us at mryileepark33334@hotmail.com
with the following details
1.YOUR NAME:
2.YOUR ADDRESS:
3.YOUR PERSONAL PHONE NUMBER:
4.COMPANY NAME:
5.OCCUPATION:
6.AGE:
7.SEX:
Our business development manager for your region will get in touch and
discuss all the sales prospects with you as soon as we hear anything
from you.
Yours truly,
YI PARK LEE.
mryileepark33334@hotmail.com
-- Sent at 15:37:24 on 08/20/08 through NITK (http://www.nitk.ac.in/) Email Gateway . AV scanning & Spam checking are done on this mail --

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