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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Shanghai Toys Limited" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <shanghaitoysimpexp@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 06:34:42 -0700
Subject: Legal Services/Representative

Good day.... Delinquent Account Services In USA. This is an official requisition for your legal consultation services on behalf of Shanghai Toys Import & Export Ltd.,China.We are exclusively engage in the business of Import/Export and manufacturer's representative of various types of toy materials. We are presently incapacitated due to international legal boundaries to exert pressure on our delinquent customers from several firms and individuals in the U.S,Canada and Europe.This has dwindled our revenue,negatively affected our operations and organizational goals.On this ground,we are seeking your legal services and as our legal representative in the U.S/Canada to ensure that our delinquent customers and payment due are settled.We wish to summon your courage to act on our behalf by initiating litigation but should employ Mediation approach before a possible law. We also require Intellectual Property legal service for the Brand protection,copyright,trademark of our products in the US and Canada market. FYI: We got your contact information from the state of USA lawyers Directory as a result of our search for a reliable firm or individual to provide legal services as requested above. After a careful review of your profile as well as your qualification and experience, we are of the opinion that you are capable and qualified to provide the legal services as requested. Please accept my sincerest appreciation on behalf of Shanghai Toys Import & Export Ltd.,China ,in advance for your willingness to render your services as we look forward to your prompt response to our request. Contrarily,in our quest to balance our cash inflow our offer is also open to non-legal individual who we may find competent/credible to be our assigned company representative in region close to our delinquent customers after a thorough scrutiny/assessment by our Management.Your role in this regard is to help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in Canada,America and Europe,as well as making payments through you to us from our customers who have payment to us.Subject to your satisfaction, you will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of payment and earn 10% of every transaction for your services, as our representative. If you are interested,please do kindly get back to us with the information outlined below: 1.Full Names....................................... 2.Contact Address:................................. 3.State/Country:................................... 4.Direct Tel.#/Fax#:............................... 5.Age:............................................. 6.Sex:............................................. 7.Marital status:.................................. 8.Occupation:...................................... Please do not hesitate to ask for more information or inquiry as we look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks in advance. Very Respectfully, Mangatas P Hutapea (Director of finance/sales), Shanghai Toys Import & Export Ltd.,China 139 An Yuan Road Shanghai China Post Code : 200041. http://www.shanghaitoys.com

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