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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031945201 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Franco Jacky" <secjacky@mondofficeworld.com>
Reply-To: secjacky_mondoffice@yahoo.it
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:32:06 +0000
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE REQUIREMENTS.

                         

 

       

 

Compliments,
Thanks for your response to our proposal.I am in receipt of your mail, and that is why am contacting you now. This organisation, is a registered public liability company with directors and board of management, our mode of operation is basically according to our client specification. we have  workers that we deal with directly from the local set up where we handle the buying and selling of our products.We sell these products to our customers in Canada/America/Europe on credit basis.
 
What we requesting personally is that, based on the scope of this organization and the mode of transaction with our client, we want you to act as our payment officers as your location shall  determine.As at the moment we cannot be paying you as one of our regular staff but you will be strictly on comission basis, you will be entitled to 10% of any amount that you receive from our customers on our behalf.
You are expected to send us the Representative requirements below, subject to our satisfaction you will be appointed immediately.Return the already completed requirements below.

 

contacts address,

phone,

full name,

occupation,

age sex,

marital status.

We await your swift response in this regards.

Best Regard,
Sec Jacky
Secretary MONDOFFICE COMPANY.

+447031945201

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