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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: jiang dafang <jiang@dafang.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:03:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: THANK FOR YOUR SWIFT RESPONSE


Dear suz,
Thanks for contacting us , we appreciate your contact and interest
towards the progress of Qianjiang Company, we have
recieded your contact addres and We want you to understand that,
what we currently need you to do is for you to be our customer
representative who will be responsible for the reception of
payments from customers from your region.

You are not required to travel to any where, this is a work at home
job and will not take much of your time. All you need to do is
receive calls from our customers from your region, collect their
payments (payments are usually in money orders), process it using
your bank account, collect your 10%, deduct the charges associated
with the transaction and transfer the rest money to our company's
account.


You are required to send us your identification document (internatonal passport or drivers license) via email.

We will send you our memorandum of understanding which you will
sign and send back to us,immediately we receive your contact
information and identification document.
We await the required contact information and your identification document.

NOTE: Reply back with English.

Very Respectfully,


Sincerely,
Jiang Dafang

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