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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447031907488 (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.
  • info_monsantocoltduk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "monsantocoltd14@terra.es" <monsantocoltd14@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:35 +0100 (MET)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED FROM YOU



Head Office:
Monsanto UK Ltd.
Cambridge CB2 2LQ England United Kingdom
P O Box 1112
Phone/fax: +44 703 190 7488

Dear Friend,

Compliment of the seasons to you.I am Mr johnson mark President of monsanto company limited base in the United kingdom.I am contacting you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to claim his fund valued at about 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from our customer, you are to contact the customer on behalf of the company, wanting to pay for products they purchase from the company lest year 2006.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine.because the customer is ready to payment , upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.

At the conclusion of this business,you will be given 10% of the total amount,85% will be for company,while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I am reposing my confidence in you now beliving that you will never let us down.

REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDATES:
To facilitate this transaction if you deem you would be able to undertake this task for the company,I would want you to submit to us via mail at info_monsantocoltduk@yahoo.co.uk with the following information which includes to

1 Your Full Name as it would appear on your resume
2 Your Qualification
3 Your Contact Address
4 Telepone number/Fax
5 Your present Occupation and Position presently held
6 Lastly,letting us know if you are free from crime

Thanks for your time and We are looking forward to receiving your resume so that we can send you the customer information.

Yours in Health and Wealth
Mr Johnson Mark
Position :President.
Website :www.monsanto-ag.co.uk


COMPANY DESCRIPTION AND MONSANTO UK NEWS UPDATE NOVEMBER 2006.

Monsant Co,uk base in the United kingdom .Our Company was established in the year 1965 and we had a customer that range between 8000 people in over 100 countries.Since its inception into business,we have been growing steadly and we had an annual revenue of $900,000---$3,000,000 in our first year of business and our last years revenue has grown to $300,000,000.00

We have now covered most part of the globe and now have a staff of about 800 people world wide.This remarkable improvement in the world market made us a member of the TRADE OK UNION in the year 2007.


New on Monsanto.co.uk:
1) Defra Approves GM Potato Research Trials
01 December 2006, Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs
(National)
Defra has approved an application by the company BASF to undertake
trials of a GM disease-resistant potato. The trials will take place on two
sites in England, starting in 2007.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10944

2) Glyphosate-Tolerant Sugar Beet Considered Safe by EFSA
14 December 2006, EFSA - European Food Safety Authority
In conclusion, the GMO Panel considers that the information available
for sugar beet H7-1 addresses the outstanding questions raised by the
Member States and considers that products produced from sugar beet H7-1
are unlikely to have any adverse effect on human and animal health or
the environment in the context of its intended uses.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10997

3) Biotech Industry Publishes New Policy Agenda for Europe - Foreword
by Finnish Presidency
14 December 2006, EuropaBio Press Release
If policy makers get it right, biotechnology can be the key which
unlocks the door to a sustainable and competitive future for Europe.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=11002

In the News:

1) Search for Crops That Can Survive Global Warming
04 December 2006, The Guardian
Some £200m a year will be poured into the research by governments
across the world to help agricultural experts develop crops that can
withstand heat and drought, find more efficient farming techniques and make
better use of increasingly fragile soil and scarce water supplies.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10943

2) Fuel, Food and Farming - Sir Don Curry Hears Yorkshire Students
Views on the Future of Farming
05 December 2006, Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs
(National)
In 2026, combating climate change and meeting the challenges of global
warming will mean that farmers are harvesting energy through biofuels
and alternative energy sources, and using GM technology to meet the
planet's food needs. http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10952

3) GM Files: Getting the Truth out There
20 December 2006, The Age
Worsening drought conditions around Australia have brought into sharp
focus the need for new technologies to meet the challenge of global
warming. The indisputable reality is that we cannot afford the indulgence
of ignoring genetically modified (GM) crops amid this worsening crisis.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=11021

4) GM Potatoes Could 'Strengthen Competitiveness'
05 December 2006, Food Navigator
Amflora, the GM starch potato at the centre of recent controversy,
could help strengthen the competitiveness of the potato starch industry,
according to EuropaBio.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10951

5) Intensified Research Effort Yields Climate-Resilient Agriculture to
Blunt Impact of Global Warming
05 December 2006, CGIAR
Researchers are developing more reliable varieties of food crops
capable of withstanding increased temperatures, drought, and flooding.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10962

6) GM Food Is Answer to Poverty and Hunger
29 December 2006, The Sunday Herald
People are being urged by Scotland's new chief scientific adviser to
embrace genetically modified (GM) food as an answer to poverty, hunger
and toxic pollution. http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=11070

7) Biotechnology in Agriculture - It May Not be Popular, but We May
Need It in Europe
21 December 2006, GMO Safety, Federal Ministry of Education and
Research, Germany
Using biotechnology may turn out to be as important as the other great
revolutions in agriculture have been in past, so the topic needs to be
taken seriously, as it is in many other parts of the world. We can
watch and wait - but for how long can we tolerate the ongoing damage to our
environment?
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=11022

8) Acceptance of Green Gene Technology is Growing in Switzerland
13 December 2006, GMO Compass
The statistical reduction of resistance towards agricultural
applications may be attributed to better information: through increasing global
experience with green gene technology, individuals originally
identifying themselves as opponents have become more broadly informed.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=11003

9) Agbiotech Evolution Needs a Regulatory Revolution
05 December 2006, Information Systems for Biotechnology
The stunted growth of agricultural biotechnology worldwide stands as
one of the great societal tragedies of the past quarter century.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=10953

10) Agricultural Biotechnology: Monster, Marvel, or just Misunderstood?
23 December 2006, Public Service Review UK via AgBioWorld
With the likelihood of another three billion mouths to feed over the
next four decades, we cannot afford the luxury of ignoring potentially
useful new technologies.
http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=11066





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