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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: "work online" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <capital987@126.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:08:29 -0700
Subject: Would you like to work online from Home

This is HTML source of message you composed. Do not modify here. To modify this message press HTML Messages Editor button.

Hello

 

 

Would you like to work online from  Home/Temporarily.

We are glad to offer you a job position.

Our Company Rac International are into Insurance, Buying and Selling cars, Incidents and Accidents Insurance. with numerous customers home and abroad. We need a representative in the Asia, Europe, South Africa, USA, CA, uk, poeto rico and mexico. who will be in charge of all our payment from clients/customers in Asia, Europe,  Canada, Usa and Uk.

Your tasks are:

1. Receive payment from our Customers through mail: (DHL, FEDEX, UPS OR OTHER FORM OF DELEIEVERY)

2. Cash it at your Bank

3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed

4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices

you will be contacted to send payment to.

Payment is to be forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money

Transfer. A local Money transfer takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer payment almost immediately.

Kindly provide us with the requested details below if you are interested.

 

 

Full Name:

Full Address (No P.O Box):

City:

State:

Zip Code:

Country:

Phone:

Age:

present or prev job:

Can you Check email at least twice Daily?

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    We await your urgent response.Thank you for your help. We look forward to working with you.

    be honest we are not asking you to pay any kind of money thanks,

 

Sincerely,  

          Regina Graham

Human Resources Manager

Operating hours: Monday - Saturday 9am-5pm

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