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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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

Fraud email example:

From: "Lucas Sachio" <info@cpth.com>
Reply-To: lucas.sachio@07168.cn
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 04:04:44 -0800 (AKDT)
Subject: Shanghai Shibang Machinery Co.,Ltd


Greetings,

I am Lucas Sachio, the Recruitment Specialist at Shanghai Shibang
Machinery Co.,Ltd. China. We are in need of a Reputable Company/Individual
in Canada that can act as our Company Sales Representative (Intermediary
between Shanghai Shibang Machinery Co.,Ltd and its clients in Canada
region). If interested, kindly indicate your interest replying this email.

Note: The job will only take few minutes of your time daily. You can Earn
Extra income while doing your normal Job/Business

Lucas Sachio
Shanghai Shibang
Machinery Co.,Ltd
Email:lucas.sachio@07168.cn


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conter informações confidenciais, protegidas por sigilo profissional. Sua
utilização desautorizada é ilegal e sujeita o infrator às penas da lei. Se
você a recebeu indevidamente, queira, por gentileza, reenviá-la ao emitente,
esclarecendo o equivoco.

Confidentiality note

This message from Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), a
government company established under Brazilian law (5.851/72), is directed
exclusively to its addressee and may contain confidential data, protected
under professional secrecy rules. Its unauthorized use is illegal and may
subject the transgressor to the law's penalties. If you are not the addressee,
please send it back, elucidating the failure.


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