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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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From: "Lattice Survey LLC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <albertsolomon00@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:21:13 -0700
Subject: ***Get Paid As A Secret Shopper

Hello,
My name is Albert Solomon, Human Resources Manager of Lattice Survey LLC. We're a mystery shopping company that conducts secret shopping evaluations throughout the US and Canada. We are looking for 60 qualified shoppers to conduct secret shopping evaluations in the US. We need individuals such as yourself to work about 4hrs a week, performing secret shopping activities. This is a part time job paying between $500-$800 per week.

We assign secret shopping assignments and after evaluation, the shopper sends in a report or comment about the events that happened during the visit. The information should be objective only and should contain only the facts about the visit. The shopper is provided funds for the request of service, hence you do not need to pay any amount to start or even invest a cent of your money into shopping. We will be providing all the funds needed. You are paid a flat fee of $120 for successfully completing an evaluation. The mystery shopper/Evaluator acts like any normal customer, you will be discrete about the evaluation, that's the only way it can be efficient.

Once you accept an assignment, your report must be completed and submitted within 24hrs hours after the visit to the evaluated Company or Business. Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service ranging from speed of service delivery, environmental neatness, attitude and manner of approach from the employees and your subjective opinion of service delivery from the business as portrayed by the employees. This report will be turned over to me directly and I in turn will collate this and the result of the survey, delivered to the business.

Our services are rendered when businesses perceive a declined in service utilization, what worse time for any business than the present recession within the country. Your Identity must be confidential and secret just as the job specifies (MYSTERY SHOPPER). Your fee is a flat $120, for every evaluation assignment. Transportation allowance is provided in the amount of $30, this will bring running costs and allowance to $150. You would be provided with the service location to evaluate as soon as you accept the position.
Please read the descriptive above carefully, sending me the info below means you are very willing and ready to start work, I don't tolerate time wasters and ghost evaluators.

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Albert Solomon
Human Resources
Lattice Survey LLC

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