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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!

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From: "Auto Major World" <adverto@majorword.com>
Reply-To: "Auto Major World" <automajorworld@asia.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 13:59:52 -0500
Subject: We are Japanese car sales in Malaysia




Dear Valued Customer,
We at Auto Major World Malaysia. We are a Japanese used car export company selling Japanese used car's.We export Japanese used cars to various countries in the world from Japan, Malaysia and USA. We have extensive stocks of Japanese used cars which satisfy your needs. We guarantee Good condition, Low price, and Quick service delivery upon CIF price.
Right now we have an overflow of new stocks of 10,000 units of Land Cruisers, Prado Jeep, Hilux / Land Cruiser pickups and different made of car's at a very cheap price. We are giving out the vehicle's to our customers in Europe, Africa and Asia continent at large market.
We are giving 25% discount because it is our marketing strategy to attract more customers in Europe, Africa and Asia continent to sell off the overflow of new stocks as quick as possible.
We want you to take an advantage of this opportunity like our other regular customers and agent. We also provide visa/diplomatic passport for our customers that would like to visit to buy car from us.
We don't want you to miss out before all the 10,000 units will finish. We have no space to upload enough picture's on our website, but we can send the picture's manually from our e-mail account directly to your e-mail address if you are interested by telling us the type of vehicle's you want.
Please contact us through our official e-mail address below.
We are looking forward to hear from you.

Marketing Person, Mr.Nasser Ibrahim
U.S.A Office:
43-40 Northern Blvd
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: 310-601-4525
Malaysia Office:
SOUTH EAST ASIAN OFFICE AND REPRESENT
CONTACT DEALER REGIONAL OFFICE
12, Jalan 6/34A,
Kepong Entrepreneur's Park, 7th Mile,
Jalan Kepong, 52100 Kuala Lumpur
Email: automajorworld@asia.com

We guarantee Good condition, Good price and Quick service.
Our Business
Exporting used vehicles.
Exporting new and used tuning parts for vehicles.
Auction agent for used vehicles.
Purchase of used vehicles from end-users.
Tuning services for vehicles.
Insurance agent
Organizing racing (drift) team
© Copyright 2012 AUTO MAJOR WORLD. All rights reserved.


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