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Learn how the 419 and Lottery Scams works

The Internet has brought a whole host of new products and services in to our world. It has also enables us to contact people and friends almost instantly.

Unfortunately all of the innovations which we like to use are also used by unscrupulous people who make a living out of cheating us out of our money.

It is important that ordinary people over the world are able to recognise these messages and how the scams work. Armed with this kind of knowledge you do not fall for these stories.

All of the e-mails posted here are fraudulent or scam e-mails. If you get one, delete it. Believe me, it’s not worth the trouble answering it.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Michael Holdcroft
18. April 2008

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A Police Raid on an Internet Café

There has been a definite increase in the so-called Agent or Representative scams. This is hardly surprising considering the amount of people having living on a minimum wage or social security these days. A lot of people are looking for ways to earn extra cash, without having to work extra long hours. That’s the kind of person this type of e-mail is targeting.

Just this last weekend, a documentary on German TV showed a similar case. The story was the following: The "Agent" was required to store packages for a foreign company. They would receive payment per package. They showed a  fictional family did not suspect a thing could be wrong with this.

Of course, soon after the family signed up as an Agent they started receiving packages with all sorts of multimedia and computer products. They diligently checked the goods and stored them in their apartment.

Some time later the packages were picked up by a Russian, who spoke no German. Up until this point the couple had not received any payment. The Russian gave them a notebook instead of money.

A couple of days later the police called on the couple and arrested them for commodity fraud.

Here’s a Chinese variation on this theme:

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: PARTNER NEEDED!!!!!!! (18-Mrz-2006 20:39)
From: liu_chan_2006@yahoo.com.hk
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

Dear Intended partner.,

On behalf of China HuaMao Arts & Crafts Organisation, it? our pleasure to introduce  to you our new sales/marketing initiative as we are world leading producer and export of artificial arts and crafts. The company maintains a comprehensive database of  inter-national trade in artificial arts and crafts, we export into Canada/America and some parts of Europe.

We are surfing for genuine and honest agents who are capable of sales and marketing  of our goods and services in what ever location they are. Our motive is to start off  from collections of outstanding accounts owed by various customers willing to make out payments now after which agents shall be promoted to sales/marketing section of  this programme based on their credibilities/accountabilities of accounts  collected/retrieved.

Please if you are interested reply by email with your phone/fax number and your full contact addresses and note ,there is no obligation whatsoever.

A remuneration can be worked out for your services as our overseas representative. We anticipate your earliest response in this regard.

Mr.Liu Chan
CEO HuaMao Arts & Crafts
No.46 Shangnan Road, Shanggan Town
Minhou County Fujian,China

Tags: 419 scam, representative fraud, agent scam, internet fraud

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Sooner or later, it reaches all of them.

This e-mail was sent in HTML format. It is the same template which has turned up a couple of times in the last couple of days.

——————Original Message ———————————————-
Subject: CONTACT PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION. YOU WON 500,000.00 (14-Mrz-2006 18:53)
From: doraomosivie@yahoo.com
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: doraomosivie@yahoo.com

COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY PROGRAM
LUCKY NO:000/589.
REF NO.3698
sera NO.000/005
BATCH NO.003/LS,
TICKET NO.4479

Dear Sir/Madam

We are please to inform you that you have won a lottery programme .This is an official notification of your lottery winning in the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM automatic subscription ticket game (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)played on 10th Mar, 2006 at the complex hall Den-Haag Holland.

You have won a prize from (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)of €500,000,00 Five Hundred Thousand euro only, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the (C.C.D.N.I.L.P) in accordance with the Europe Millione lottery ordinance, you are authorized as the lottery prize winner to request claims of your winning prize.

After randomly selecting 8000,000 participants from an initial database of emails addresses, all participants were selected through a computer ballot system from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, U.S.A and South America as part our International Promotions Program to all our costomers, which was conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe to all Internet user, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize.

This promotional program takes place every four years. Total of 8000,000 emails different addresses are entered for the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM automatic subscription ticket game (C.C.D.N.I.L.P.) All email addresses entered for the game are submitted by our partner international email service providers/ marketing companies and public services providers.

Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS). Your email ID was included among the 8000,000 email addresses, and yours was luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners.

Note ********Note*********************Note**********************

That the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM will remit prize payout to only winners who email address officially won, and will be aloud for their prize claims.

You are required to file your claim,please contact the appointted Lottery Group KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND fiducial agent Mr.Joel Howard, this office will process your claim file and send your file to the pay bank for the remittance of your prize payout of € 500,000 euro only.

NOTE!!!!!!!

All winners most claim his/her prize not later then one week of this notification. And you advise to contact the processing agent by sending your relpy email to the below lottery office email address;

KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND.
PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION
Office Address:Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk Noord.
Fiducial agent Mr.Joel Howard
Processing Officer.
Tel; 0031-627032938.
Fax; 0031-84721 5368.
EMAIL: winneremail06@netscape.net

THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM, ON BEHALF OF (C.C.D.N.I.L.P) GAMES 2006. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.

SINCERELY,
MRS. DORA MORISON.
CO-ORDINATOR. (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)

N.B. ; TO PROCESS YOUR CLIAM PRIZE,SEND YOUR REPLY EMAIL TO ; winneremail06@netscape.net

- dora omosivie

Tags: coca cola, lotter scam, 419 scam, infernet fraud

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