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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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• 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: "peter martins" <rivatex.co4@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:10:50 -0700
Subject: JOB OFFER AND GOOD PAYMENT


Your Ref: 3915/07/TF-ATW


Riva Paoletti(c): Introduces the position of offshore financial manager, you
being our offshore manager your Responsibility is to process payments from
customers and clients. You do not need to travel to meet our client or
Customer as all payment will be delivered to you at home.

The requirements for the candidates are:


-Being energetic, responsible, honest and industrious
-Being Between 19-90 years old
-Having a few (1-2 hrs a day) to check your email
-Having a phone, (home and mobile)
-Having an email
-Having a bank account to proccess our check payments.


Once you are able to attribute yourself and meet all the above listed
requirements, you should probably then apply for our offered position. Our
company remains the most successful distributor of power equipments
manufactured by Riva Paoletti. Recently, our company's profit has increased
so much, thus, we decided to expand into the markets of United Kingdom and
Africa. Your duties as offshore financial manager will be to receive
payments through various means from the customer in the nearest Region. The
employee will process the payment and send the money via Western Union to
one of our regional trade missions or our partner regional branches around
the world.


There are 2 means which you can receive payment from our client.


1. By check.
2. Wells Fargo Bank

You are expected to deduct 12% for your income and wire the the remaining
balance of the money to the location we would make available to you. (YOU
COULD EARNED UP TO $900 usd a WEEK OR MORE) It's real and legit and we have
our own way of verifying information given to us to ascertain if it's
genuine or otherwise. NOTE: ALL CHARGES BY WESTERN UNION WILL BE HANDLED BY
Riva Paoletti, so when sending via western union, fees will be taken from
total sum processed by you. Further details regarding to the employment form
and confirmation will be entertained via our personal email address
rivatex.co2@live.com . Kindly get back to us with the following information
if you are interested in working with us.


1.) First Name:
2.) SurName:
3.) Address:
4,) City:
5.) State:
6.) Zip code:
7.) Mobile Phone Number:
8.) Cells Phone Number:
9.) Gender:
10.) Status:
11.) Age:
12.) Present Job:


Riva House
Limewood Approach
Leeds LS14 1NG
United Kingdom

PH +44 (0) 7024027109
Email: rivatex.co2@live.com
Web content for all Riva Paoletti(c) : http://www.rivatex.co.uk/

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