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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Raymond Lee" <raymond_lee@argemail-cn.com>
Reply-To: raymond_7lee@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:36:26 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF RAYMOND LEE.

FROM THE DESK OF RAYMOND LEE.
CHINE METALLURGICAL STEEL $ IRON INDUSTRY(Arge hydraulic)
Raymond Lee
1329 Laoshan Xi Road,
Pudong, Shanghai, china.
200135
Tel: 021-58798798
E-mail:raymond_lee@argemail-cn.com
Website: www.arge.com.cn

BE OUR REPRESENTATIVE:

Good Day,

It is my pleasure to write to you in respect of our organisation. I got your
contact from a International magazine. We are experts in the sales of Metal
Raw Materials. We export into the Canada/America/british and some parts
Europe. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a
medium of getting our funds from our costumers in the
canada/America/Europe/british as well as making payments through these
offshore representatives to us.

Please, if interested in transacting business in view of helping us,so our
clients could make payment to you being our representative, we will be very
glad. Compensations will be given and other benefits.Contact us for more
information If this proposal is acceptable to you.Please get back to me, so
that I can work out a remuneration for your services as our offshore
representative.

Thanks,as I anticipate your earliest response in the above regard.

Your Sincerely,

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