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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: " Survey Team® LLC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <thomas.perkins11@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:00:06 -0400
Subject: Vacancy!! Vacancy!! Vacancy!! ( Reply if you are intrested )

To Whom It May Concern:

Thank you for your interest in Certified Field Associate.This is to inform you that we have a vacancy post for a Customer evaluator in our company and like to know your interest in working for Reacts Surveys Company.Customer Evaluator is a valuable customer service tool that has gained widespread acceptance in the retail, financial services and restaurant industries, and proves highly valuable to companies that uses it to gain customer experience metrics.

You will be evaluating the efficiency of a prominent money transfer services preferably Western Union or MoneyGram outlet in your neighborhood as regards sending and receiving money transfers. Kindly look for one outlet you would like to evaluate, make sure the store or outlet you choose are close to your area as much as possible, you will have to email the name and address of the location to us.

Please note that you are to act Cool,Calm and Confident through out the period which you will be carrying out your survey at the store, in order not to arouse any suspicion. You would make use of their service by sending us a money transfer via their outlet with the funds we would provide for you.

We would provide you with funds via Certified Cheque from our customer's in different cities and states all around the world.The customer will mail the cheque to you and you are expected to cash the cheque at the nearest bank or cash point to enable you carry out your first Assignment with us.

You will write a report about the customer services, you will send your report back to us via Email, you will have to use the following pointers to prepare your report:

1) How long it took you to get services. 2) Ambiance/Outlook of the Shop/Outlet
3) Smartness of the attendant 4) Customer service professionalism 5) Reaction of personnel under pressure 6)

Information that you think would be helpful 7) Your comments and impressions.
As an evaluator, the pay is 300.00 USD weekly on Part-time basis, you only work once or twice in a week. Payments

will be mailed out to you per task, which you will expend in carrying out all that will be required of you including your Compensation and Transportation fee. All Other Instructions will be sent out to you as soon as Evaluation commences

Kindly provide the below information for assessment and registration if you are interested.

Full Name
Address (Not P.O.Box )
City:
State:
Zip-Code:
Home Number:
Cell Number:
Present occupation
Age and Sex :
Country;
Bank Name:
Messenger ID:
Online Period:


I will be looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you

Mr. Thomas Perkins
phone number: 803 661 0643
Survey Team® LLC

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