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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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Fraud email example:

From: "ANDREW WOODS ARTIST" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susan.hays1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:40:21 +0100
Subject: Update. WORK FROM HOME

Hello Sir / Madam,

How are you doing, this is a awareness to let the public know that we have a job opening for the position of Accounts Receivable/Payable Clerk at (ANDREW ARTIST LIMITED). Would you like to work from your home and get paid weekly? (ANDREW ARTIST) specialize in serving the entire countries and a growing export market, particularly in the supplies of selected Paints including Paints and Arts decorating.

ABOUT US:

Our Company, Our Vision, Values, Mission and Operating Principles have been developed to reflect not only our day-to-day work on our core business. Strategies are to guide us through the challenges and opportunities that come with global expansion and rapidly changing markets.

Visit our website for details: http://www.andrew-wood.com/index.html

Job Description

Your primary task for now, as a representative of the company is to Coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items. They order for about 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through, Cashier Check, Poster Money Order. Based on the amount involves we have decided to open this new contract-to-hire job position for solving this problem.


Your First Primary task (Collection of Payments):

1. Payment will be issued in form of Cashier Check, check or Poster Money Order to your name and send to your address by our customers.

2. You must be checking your email every day to know when payment has been sent or Wired by our clients.

3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.

4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to, you'll have a lot of free time doing another job, because this job is part time, you'll get good income ($500usd weekly). But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We will consider your application if you satisfy our requirements and we are sure you will be an earnest assistant till we start Running our branch office in your state. Get back to us with below information so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers.

EMPLOYMENT FORM

Reference No: - LSLCA/2031/ 8161/05
Batch No: R4/A313/2-60
Full name:....................................
Address (not p.o.box): ....................................
City: ...................................
State: ....................................
Zip: ...................................
Country: ....................................
Home Phone:....................................
Cell Phone: ....................................
Email: ....................................
Gender: ....................................
Age: ....................................
Profession: ....................................
Nationality: ....................................

Thanks for Your Total Understanding

I wait your full details ASAP,

(Job Processing Unit)

Payments Instructor
Susan Hays.
(ANDREW WOODS ARTIST)
United Kingdom,
Email:offshoregbf@consultant.com
Website: http://www.andrew-wood.com/index.html

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