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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: "Anhui Guofeng Plastic Industry" <sales@guofeng-industry.net>
Reply-To: guofeng_industry@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:26:23 +0000
Subject: ACT AS OUR COMPANY PAYMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Dear Prospective Representative,

ACT AS OUR COMPANY PAYMENT REPRESENTATIVE

First and foremost, I will like to introduce to you ''Anhui Guofeng Plastic
Industry ''. Anhui Guofeng Group Co.Ltd is the State Key High-tech
Enterprise and one of 18 Anhui Provincial Enterprise Groups and based in
China and this commenced operations in 1984. We are into Plastic profile,
Plastic film, Plastic pipe, power wire and non-metallic material production
which is majorly imported from Asia and sold to our numerous customers all
over the World.

Presently, we are faced with some problems most especially with our Payment
methods as most clients we have in the United States/Canada prefer to pay us
with cheque rather than cash. We find it very cumbersome in accepting such
payments due to the new monetary policy in our baking systems here in China
and this is crippling our business. We have numerous customers in the United
States/Canada and we cannot afford to loose them due to this problem.

We hereby request for your hand in partnership to act as our payment
Representatives (Anhui Guofeng Plastic Industry), to act as our clients who
shall receive payment on our behalf from our customers in the United States
and Canada. You shall be entitled to 10% of each payment you receive on our
behalf and this shall be a continuous process.

Upon receipt of this requested information, we shall provide you with the
necessary details of how to become our representative. For official purpose,
please send your response and acceptance via same email for futher
proceedure.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Chang Tao-Chung
Sales Manager
Anhui Guofeng Plastic Industry


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