419 scam: "House Of Bliiss Art Gallery"<house_bliss@aol.com> URGENT PART-TIME JOB OFFER

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +27814325688 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- house_bliss@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "House Of Bliiss Art Gallery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <house_bliss@artlover.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:30:01 +0200
Subject: URGENT PART-TIME JOB OFFER

House of Bliss Fine Art Gallery
Unit 46, Broadacres Lifestyle Centre
Cnr Cedar and Valley Rds
Broadacres Fourways,Johannesburg
South Africa.
website :www.houseofbliss.com
Phone +27814325688
Private email: house_bliss@aol.com

URGENT PART-TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY

My name is Jude Bliss CEO House of Bliss Fine Art Gallery, Am an artist working in South Africa. We want to know if you would like to work for the house of bliss art gallery and get paid without affecting your present job. Actually we need a representative who can be working for our company. We make lots of supplies to some of our clients in the states and UK for which I do come to the states and UK to receive payment and have it cashed before we can supply them the goods. It's always very expensive and stressful for us to come to the states and receive such payment twice in a month.

So we therefore decided to contact you. We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment received by you from our clients who makes payment through you either via cash, bank to bank transfer or cheque. Just in case you are concerned about how we got to your contact, it was through the American Chamber of Commerce for trust worthy individuals; we were directed on how to make an online search.
Kindly get back to us as soon as possible if you are interested in this job offer with the following details for commencement:

FIRST NAME......................
LAST NAME.......................
ADDRESS.......................
CITY.........................
STATE...........................
ZIP CODE........................
COUNTRY..........................
PHONE NUMBER (S)....................
GENDER........................
AGE.....................

These details are required by the company to enable us get to know you better and to avoid undue mix up. You are about to become part of us, so it will be very logical if we get acquainted with you, Through this we can earn each other's trust.

For further information, contact this email address: house_bliss@aol.com with the above information's required.
We will appreciate your urgent response to our online proposal and hope to do our best.

Very respectfully,

Regards,
Jude Bliss

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