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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• 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.
  • hlee_2100@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Zeta Industrial (Shenzhen)Co., Ltd" <companyoffer@core.com>
Reply-To: hlee_2100@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:04:52 -0400
Subject: Zeta Industrial (Shenzhen)Co., Ltd(ACT AS OUR COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE


Dear sir/madam,

A leading chinese company Zeta Industrial (Shenzhen)Co., Ltd. that deals on import and export of various blinds, pU mouldings, coneric mouldings,columns,ornaments, celings,Bathroom Supplies,Curtains,Interior Decoration into the Canada,North and South America, Asia and Europe.

We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in the Canada, America, Asia and Europe as well as making payments through you to us.Your duty as our company's representative in your domain is to help our company develop it exporting market in your region and contact our customers who purchased goods from our company on credit bases that are willing to make payment and negotiate with them their modes of payment as some may want to make an installmental payment and some may also wants to make full payment. Agent Reward As being our representative. For each payment a debtor makes to you, you are entitle to 10% of the total funds while the balance 90% an instruction will be given to you by our company on how to send the funds to our company in Asia. Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be very glad. Please contact us for more information through:

Name :Mr. Hung Lee
Email: hlee_2100@yahoo.com.cn
COMPANY ADDRESS: Room 609, Bao'an Foreign Trading Bldg,1068 Wenjin (North) Road, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. China
TEL:86-755-1406202
FAX:86-755-1406342

Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services as our representative in Canada,North and South America, Asia and Europe.Please if you are interested forward to us the following information belows:
FULL NAME:.............................
CONTACT ADDRESS:.......................
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER:..................
MOBILE:................................
(EMAIL) for contact:...................
COMPANY NAME(if any):..................
Thanks,
Mr.Hung Lee,
General Manager

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