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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: "Shanghai Toys Limited" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <shanghaitoysimpexp@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:00:21 -0700
Subject: Reliable Partner on Delinquent Account Services In USA.

Hi,

Classified information, Please acknowledge receipt.

We are a company based in China. Exclusively we engage in the business of Import/Export and manufacturer's representative of various types of toy materials.Our target market is premised on Demography and Geography.However, our company has Accounts Receivable or Receivable delinquency from several firms and individuals in the U.S. The inability to receive
these A/R has affected our cash inflow. In fact, our revenues have dwindled and this has negatively affected our operations and organizational goals.

To balance our cash inflow, we had to restructure our discounts.Hence we are looking for representatives who can 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 which we will pay you 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:......................................

We look forward to hearing from you .

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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