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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: "wenzhou Industrial Leasing Company" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sato.tanaka@wdlic.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:04:15 +0100
Subject: Earn from your home

Attention,
wenzhou Industrial Leasing Company Ltd.,a global financial wealth managing institution, requires your service for

unpaid invoices by our customers in your country.As a policy statement,it has become our resolve to have agents in

your country whose duties are to ensure the collection of unpaid invoices .It only takes a simple process of

registration (free),after which your person will be scrutinised before your name is included amongst our various

agents worldwide.You will be contacted by our clients closer to your location and remittance made to you with a

commission paid to you for your services.Please confirm if you could help us,as further terms of contract will be

unveiled upon your response.


Regards

Sato Tanaka
(Director of Operations/secretary)
Head Office:Wenzhou Dilicin Industrial Leasing Co., 1390,okayama,Higashi Ku, Niigata, 93-0451 Japan.
Tel:+81-5058-0624-09
Fax:+81-5521-3588-3

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