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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: "koffi" <koffipeters22@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 07:32:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE.


Dear Baldemar Hert,With respect to your email sent to us,i was directed to contact you.First i must thank you for your interest to being ourrepresentative/Agent in this endeavour but before we commence, it willbe better youknow more about this as you have indicated.We seek aRepresentative/Agent in your province due tolanguage/regional barrier we find problem dealingdirectly with our customers.So to this end we seek theassitance of individual or a group to assist us.Our Co-operative,was established in 1970, before nowwe operate locally,but we have decided to embark oninternational trade. we buy and sale raw gold,Dust Gold Minening &amp;Dimond Import&amp; Corporation that is why we need a representative/Agent in your province in otherwords,you will beresponsible for searching for potential customers aswell as collecting payment from customers suppliedgoods to.By doing this on our behalf you will be paid10% of every amount that you collect.This is how itgoes when ever there is
a payment to be made by any ofour customers.Your contact information will be sent to all ourcustomers in yourprovince, if we find you elligible. This would bedetermined by the board of trustees. First, we wouldwant to know if you are disposed at present,andsecondly have you handled such a position previously?I hope to have informed you correctly and wait to hearfrom you soon so i can advice you on the very nextstep to take in this endeavour.Faithfully Yours,Mr.Koffi Peters Managing Director CEO PRESIDENT.


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