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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:
  • "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.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • danieldrogers77@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DANIEL ROGERS" <danielrogersdave2@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: danieldrogers77@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:13:32 +0000
Subject: PART-TIME OFFER (GET STARTED IMMEDIATELY)

Long Well Textile Limited
27 Langton Avenue,
E6 6AN, London, United Kingdom.
Phone: 011-44-786-211-4759

Here is a great opportunity for you to work from home and get paid
weekly with little or no stress. Its a job with no emphasis on
qualification, sex, age, marital status or location within the Uinted state.
We are glad to offer you a job position in our company as a representative
in the United States of America.

We are an international company based in the United Kingdom. We are
presently seeking out focused individuals with high level of integrity to
work with around the world.You were found out as a possible representative
of our company. We are in great need of sincere and trustworthy in the
United States. It will be interesting if you could work with us. Long Well
Textile Limited is a company based in the United Kingdom, we need someone to
work for the company as a Representative/Bookkeeper/Customer Service in the
states pending when the company will be able to establish an office in the
US.

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

YOUR TASKS
Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.You are not involved in any sales.Sales are monitored and
co-ordinated by Our sales manager. Once sale are made and are always
delivered to customers (usually through FEDEX).

The customer receives and Verify 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 U.S Certified Cheques and U.S Money orders based on
the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position for
solving this problem.

YOUR TASKS WILL INVOLVE:

Receive payment from Customers
Monitoring Products and Information from Customers
You are entitled to 10% on every Payment processed
All issued payments to you after deduction of your 10% is to be forwarded by
Western Union Money Transfer.Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it
will give us a possibility to get customer’s payment almost immediately.

For example If you receive $3000.You take your income :$300. Send to us:
$2700 less the bank and transfer charges .First month you will have 15-20
transactions on nothing less than $3000-$4000.So you may calculate your
income.

*The average monthly income is about $5000.
*No form of investments from you.
*This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

We understand it is an unusual but incredible job position. This job
takes only 1-7 hours per week.You’ll have a lot of free time doing another
job You don't need to have an Office,you’ll get good income and regular
job.But this job is very challenging and you should understand it and be
Trustworthy.We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our
requirements.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 Long Well
Textile Limited ,a letter of employment would be sent to and you would fill
it out and send back via email and you will receive necessary information in
1-48 hours. Take note: Honesty is the watchword here.

You should contact me if you are interested as your prompt response is
very important. You must reply immediately you read this message to my
personal email... danieldrogers77@yahoo.com or call 011-44-786-211-4759.
With your full details and clearly state that you are responding to the part
time job offer made to you.

FULL NAME:
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
CELL PHONE NUMBER:
HOME PHONE NUMBER:
EMAIL ADDRESS:

Thank you. I await your prompt response

Daniel Dave Rogers.
C.E.O
Long Well Textile Limited.
27 Langton Avenue,
E6 6AN, London, United Kingdom.
Cell: 011-44-786-211-4759
danieldrogers77@yahoo.com

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