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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "money orders " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
  • "cheques " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • johnxlimited@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Xin" <johnlimited@terra.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:20:52 -0600
Subject: Job Opportunity...


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, KIN HING HONG (EXPORT & IMPORT) CO. LTD, we need someone to work for the company as a representative/book keeper in the USA, Canada and major European countries .
This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA, Canada and major European countries. You don’t need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.
Our Company deal on Mechanical Equipment, Hardware and Minerals, Electrical Products, Medical, Chemicals and Industrial products, we have seller all over the world to distribute our products.
You know, that it's not easy to start a business in a new market. 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 in 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 possible because customers can just "forget" to pay.
Unfortunately we are unable to open bank accounts in the USA, Canada and major European countries without first registering the company name. Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put on hold, For fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the USA, Canada and major European countries soon enough as international Cheques 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
===============
Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process.
You are not involved in any sales. Our sales manager sells products. Once he makes a sale 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 Cheques, Money orders OR wire transfer into bank account based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.
For example you've got 3000.00USD
You take your income: 300.00 USD
Send to us: 2700.00 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 up to 4410.00 USD
Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD
Total: 5410.00 USD per month
After establishing close co-operation you'll be able to operate with larger orders and you'll be able to earn more.
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 if you want to work for KIN HING HONG (EXPORT & IMPORT) CO. LTD, a letter of employment would be sent to and you would fill it out and send back via email to Mr John Xin "johnxlimited@yahoo.com" and you will receive necessary information in 1-48 hours.

KIN HING HONG TEXTILES LTD
207-129 Yu Chau Street,
Shamshuipo, Kowloon,
Hong Kong.
Tel/Fax: 852-301-40145
johnxlimited@yahoo.com

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