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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +448704784476 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mysimon_warehousezone1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MySimon Warehouse" <onlinedep@delphiforums.com>
Reply-To: mysimon_warehousezone1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:11:14 +0000
Subject: ***Online employment based on commission***




Our intended partner,

We seek your sincere co-operation and trust in respect of a business opportunity in our company. We are a multi-purpose industry that deals in the importation/exportation of all kinds of furnitures,computers,electronics,gaming,clothings,jewelries etc in the United kingdom.

We offer real timber furniture for indoor and outdoor use, which is easily assembled for transport, access and storage. Our management board decision that we diversify & reach out to other countries mainly Mexico, America, Canada & Sub Regions in Europe prompts this offer.

MYSimon Warehouse, have a project at hand to establish various mini-market structures in some parts of the USA for the purpose of exhibiting our goods and services .,we shall have you to manage a particular outfit of ours in your location if you have the qualifications and capabilities.
We need credible individuals in the United States of America, Mexico, Canada & Europe. Your duty will be to help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in Mexico,chile, America, Canada & Europe as well as receiving payments from them on our behalf.

You will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of contract for which payment for your services will be made, subject to your satisfaction.
Basic payment for services will be:-For the first 180 days, Representatives will receive 5% commission on every transaction processed. After the 180 day period, commission will increase to 10% on turnovers collected from our customers.

For more information and further proceedings, please reply with the following details-

Your full name:
Age:
Sex:
Phone number:
Fax number:
And your full contact address:
Email:

I look foward to hearing from you.

Thank you in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Mr David Simon (CEO)
MySimon Warehouse,
11a Bunns Bank,Old Buckenham,
Attleborough,Norfolk NR17 1QD UK
Tel:+44(0)7011147265
Tel :+44(0)7031834815
Fax: +448704784476
mysimon_warehousezone1@yahoo.co.uk

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