Chinese Agent Scam

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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