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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: "Ronld Wills" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ronaldwills199@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:13:20 -0700
Subject: HIRING!!FORWARD**RESUME

NTERIORDEC
249 W. 17th Street,
New York, NY 10011

Greetings,

I am Mr Ronald Wills Manager of INTERIORDEC publishing.We
need a representative from USA /CANADA/ who can be working
for us as a Payment Officer.we receive Payments from clients
in form of Money Orders and Check for which it's always too
expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive such
payment so We decided to contact you.As a Payment Officer
for the company all you have to do is below:

JOB DESCRIPTION
Receive Documents/Payments in form of Check, Money Order,wire transfer(account)
Deduct 10% which will be your percentage
Forward balance after deduction of percentage to the
companies Account.
Also you will be entitled to a monthly salary payment of $1000.

Email back with the Info below

NAME
FULL ADDRESS(not p.o. box)
CITY
STATE
ZIP CODE
CELL
Acc NUMBER

Hiring Manager
Ronald Wills

Human Resources Department,
www.interiordec.about.com
#610 930 5039

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