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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:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "charlie murray"<charlie@chinachem.com>
Reply-To: <charliemurray14@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:32:57 +0100
Subject: Hello.

Company Agent Needed
China Chemicals Limited
2327 Fuxue Road ,
Changping District
Beijing , PRC


Hello,

I am here to bring to your notice a Job offer which I know it will be a great interest to you. My name is Mr Charlie Murray am the Personel Officer of the China Chemical in China the biggest Chemical and raw materials industry in Asia.

Presently, we are running out of Finance due to the high volume of
money (running in Millions of US dollars) that some companies in Europe North and South America own to our Company, we have confronted these companies and the company in question has agreed to begin installmental
payment.

Right now we do not have international licence to operate in your
Country so Our Company CEO has said that we employ agent in this Countries who will represent our Company and help in the collection of this
outstanding bills. As the personal Officer I was giving the responsibility to employ agents in these Countries so they can help in the collection
of the funds.

My offer is this, we will want you to represent China Chemical in yourCountry and help to collect these outstanding bills.
If you are willing to assist, you would be paid 10%of the total sum you collect on behalf of our company. To Begin, all you have to do is send to us your full name, detailed mailing address, tell and fax numbers.Once you have done this, I would inform you what to do and give you a breakdown of the way to get your approval from our Company.

Note that this is a not money laundering operation and will not breach the law, each transfer will be processed and will follow your Country laws and taxes will be deducted from our part of the funds. Do check our site for further information.
www.chem.com.cn

Thanks in advance as I look forward to hearing from you.

Very Respectfully,
Mr. Charlie Murray

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