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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: "Graphite Capital Sealine LLP." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <graphcaps@blumail.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:51:42 -0000
Subject: JOB OFFER POSITION AVAILABLE

Graphite Capital Sealine LLP.
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
London W1J 6BQ,
Fax: +44 700 593 1178
Tel: +44 704 571 9918

Good day,

My name is Scott Gate; I am emailing you on behalf of Graphite Capital Sealine LLP, United

Kingdom. I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid

without affecting your present job or even affecting your day-to-day activities of any kind,

actually we need a representative who can work for our company as an Online Payment

Processor.

We are presently making waves in the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland markets, we intend

expanding our business towards the America and Canada by accepting orders from both

individuals and companies within US and Canada. We recently placed Ad's on online websites

for sales of our product and got a very good number of requests for our products, however it

is against our company policy to accept International Payments such as: USA Certified

Checks, USA Bank Wire Transfers, USA Money Orders. Therefore, we are requesting your

partnership to assist in receiving payments on behalf of our company.

We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment processed through you from our

clients/customers who will pay for their products which are purchased from our secure
website stated above. These payments are coming from these clients within US and Canada and

will be sent to you directly from our customers, all you have to do is lodge and cash each

payment, deduct 10% and forward 90% to our Payment Processing Center, however you will be

required to have a valid checking account in which our customers might request to make

payment either via Wire Transfer (Bank to Bank Transfer) or Credit Card either via Certified

Check.

You do not require any special skills to work with our firm, however in order to apply for
this job you need to ensure you have access to your e-mail regularly and reply to our

e-mails promptly. You will also need to provide us with a valid phone in which you can be
reached at anytime in case of any special update, in order to accept this job kindly fill

the form stated below:

Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Country:
Zip Code:
Phone Number:
Age:
Current Occupation:

Note: You must have a valid Credit Card account in which can be used to receive payments

being sent from a customer, this might be via Wire Transfer or Direct Deposit.

Kindly get back to me ASAP by filling the form stated above, once I hear from you I will
immediately send you a reply with further information.

Regards,

Scott Gate
Program Directors / Recruiter Agent
Graphite Capital Sealine LLP.

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