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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: "Bill Coker" <wellkang3@msn.com>
Reply-To: coker_wellkang@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:45:18 +0000
Subject: WE NEED YOU AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Bill Coker the Personel Manager of Wellkang International.We are a
group of business men who deal on consumer goods commodities as well as
label production and certification of industrial products from highly using
world-class manufacturing (WCM) methods such as single minute exchange of
die (SMED) from Art and Craft processes with production of Rubber and PVC
profiles, seals and body
trimmings for automobiles and export into the Canada/America and Europe.
I am currently running my business from my Newton Abbot,UK Office where I
am located for now.We are searching for representatives who can help us
establish a medium of getting to our customers in the Canada/America,Europe
and Asia as well as making payments through you to us.

We are searching for credible representatives who can help us establish a
medium of getting to our customers in the Canada,USA and a large part of
Europe and Asia as well as recieving payments from our esteemed
clients/customers as a result of expansion of our services and streamlining
of our official task/routines before us.

Please if you are interested in transacting business with us, we will be
very glad and open to accept you into our business team with 10% benefit to
you from any payment recieved from our esteemed customers to you on behalf
of our Company.But all we just need is trust and i hope we can rely on you.
Please if you are interested do get back to me on my private
email(coker_wellkang@yahoo.co.uk)Please
note that your areas of specialization or occupation is of no relevance to
resolve to assisting us.
Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation.

Bill Coker.
Personel Manager WELLKANG INTERNATIONAL.
http://www.wellkang.com


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