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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Ben Smith" <j4straford107@msn.com>
Reply-To: j4straford@cashette.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:44:04 +0000
Subject: PART TIME JOB OFFER

TEMPORARY JOB OFFER
Would you like to work temporarily and get paid weekly?
(Open only to US Citizens and Residents)
Dear Sir/Madam,
Would u like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly?
we are glad to offer you for a job position at our company, Z&L Fabrics
and
Textiles
We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper
in
the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the
USA.
You don’t need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any
form of
work you have going at the moment.
Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use
state-of-the-art
textile equipment from the world's leading suppliers. Order processing,
production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated
through a
company-wide computer network
* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day
About the job:
We have sales representatives all over the world to distribute our
products.
You know, that it's not easy to start a business in a new market (being
the
US). There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between
suppliers and customers and other
difficulties, which impede our sales promotion.
We have decided to deliver the products upfront, it's very risky but it
should push up sales on 25 percent.
Thus we need to get payments for our products as soon as it possible.
Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in the United US
without
first registering the company name. Presently with the amount of Orders
we
have, we cannot put them on hold. For fear of loosing the customers out
rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon
enough, as
international Checks take about 14 working days for cash to be made
available.
We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money
transfer delays*
Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.
You are not involved in any sales. Our makes direct contact for sales
of
products. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to
a
customer (usually through FEDEX).
The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done
the
customer has to pay for the products.
About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified
Checks and
Money orders based on the amount involved.
Your Task
We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.
Your tasks are;
1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payment at your Bank
3. Deduct 7% 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.
(Payment is to be forwarded either by Money Gramme or Western Union
Money
Transfer).
www.westernunion.com
www.moneygrame.com
Local Money transfers take barely hours, so it will give us a
possibility
to get customer's payment almost immediately.
For example you've got 3000.00USD
you take your income: 210.00 USD
Send to us: 2790.00 USD
First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD
so you may calculate your income.
For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 4410.00 USD
Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD
Total: 5410.00 USD per month
After establishing a close co-operation with us you'll be able to
operate
with
larger orders and you'll be able to earn more.
Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them
cashed in
your bank or other Cashing Services.
Deduct your weekly salary and forward the balance to the company via
western
union money transfer or money gramme money transfer
We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job
takes
only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time doing another
job,
you'll get good income and regular job.
But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are
looking only
for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest
assistant.
We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you are
a
serious
and earnest worker and you want to work for Z&L Fabrics and Textiles,
kindly
send me ur name ,address and phone number via email


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