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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:

• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• 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.

Fraud email example:

From: "KELVIN JOOP" <joopkelvin@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrkelvin@windowslive.com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:12:59 -0700
Subject: Greetings from Dubai,

Dear Sir,
My name is KELVIN JOOP .I am the sale maneger of DUKE COLE TEXTILES AND FABRICS COMPANY IN THE (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)DUBAI Presently,our company is looking for a trustworthy bookkeeper,representative in Canada/USA.
An excellent opportunity to work at home part time and still keep your full time job.DUKE COLE Textile is a company that produces and sells Chinese and African textile and fabric material in (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) DUBAI. our company produces various clothing materials, batisks, assorted fabrics and traditional costumes. We have clients that we supply weekly in the states. My clients make payments for our supplies every week by check which are not readily cashable outside of the US or Canada,so we need a representative to assist us in processing This will enable our cash to flow
more quickly and therefore would not tie down our capital. I would be
willing to employ you on contract basis to be my payment representative
back in the canada.
I am involved in alot of travel and this way I could
give my clients the authority to make the cheque, money orders, etc out
to you. You could then easily cash at your bank, then withdraw 10%
of the total amount as your commission and send the rest back to the
company through Western Union/Money gram wire transfer.

IF YOU AT ALL INTERESTED IN THIS PROPOSAL FOR EMPLOYMENT PLEASE
REPLY TO THIS MAIL,THEN I WILL SEND U AN APPLICATION FORM,
LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT. I NEED TO FILL THIS POSITION AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON.
DUKE:COLE

JOB DESCRIPTION?
1. RECEIVE PAYMENT FROM CLIENTS (delivered by FedEx or UPS you would
need to be at your address to sign)
2. CASH PAYMENTS AT YOUR BANK (PAYMENT WILL BE MAKE IN YOUR NAME TO BE
CASHED AT YOUR BANK) CLIENTS WILL CONTACT YOU FIRST AND SEND PAYMENT VIA COURIER OR MAIL.
3. DEDUCT 10% WHICH WILL BE YOUR PERCENTAGE/PAY ON PAYMENT PROCESSED
(Example $5000.00 you would deduct $500.00 pay the Western Union fee out of the $4500.00 left and send remainder to my company.
4. FORWARD BALANCE AFTER DEDUCTION OF PERCENTAGE/PAY TO MY COMPANY
(WESTERN UNION/MONEY GRAM MONEY TRANSFER)

*Please make sure your telephone # is correct -- I will need to call you
when everything is in place.
ATTESTATION
You will with the rules as advised earlier in this e-mail and by
Job Description.
You will notify the company one week ahead if eventually you want to
discontinue these funds from coming to your address in order to avoid conflict.
DUKE COLE TEXTILES LIMITED
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