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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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• 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.
  • wufengfei@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: "cnooc oil base group limited" <info@company.com>
Reply-To: wufengfei@aim.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:43:13 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE IS NEEDED


cnooc oil base group limited
Address:6 Dongzhimenwai Xiaojie,
Dongcheng District, Beijing, China 100027
Telephone: 010-8452101 , 010-8453198
Fax:010-6460250
Email:wufengfei@aim.com
Good Day,

This is a letter from CNOOC Oil Base Group Ltd. The company (CNOOC) was
established in 1982. We specializes in Oil exploitation, technical
service, chemicals,fertilizar production, refining,natural gas,power
generation,financial services,logistic services and new energies
development.With our age old tradition of Gmek system,we are able to pick
our Agent(s) randomly all over the globe in other to meeting with the 21st
century customer services globally.Since its establishment, Cnooc oil
company has been excellent in nation building and impeccable in meeting
with today's standard. we will beglad in employing your services to
working as Agent(s) on our behalf for goods and raw materials we
supplied to our customers in North America and you receive first hand
payment from our customers in the region on our behalf in
which you receive a 5% (Five Percent)payment in every transaction done on
our behalf. Most payment (dealings) ranges from $20,000.00 to $3.3
MillionUS Dollars .

for more information; visit our corperate website : www.cnooc.com.cn

please if you are interested, forward the following info to us:
1. Your Full Name:
2. Payment should be made to: Company?(s) Name:
3. Your Full Contact Address(Postal Address):
4. Phone/Fax Number:
5.. Occupation:
Thanks as we anticipates your understanding and looking forward to your
becoming our corperate partner(s).A partnership grounded on
fairness,equity and reliability.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Wu Mengfei
Chief Financial Officer

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