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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: "Davis Textiles Ltd" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <3035461885@qq.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:06:58 +0100
Subject: Re: Personal Assistant Needed

Good Day,

I want you to know that i have a business proposal for you,i want you to work as my Company representative in your country,receiving payments on behalf of salem oil consultancy Company.

Please note that this position is not office based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules, it's a part-time, work from home basis and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so it's a little difficult judging the exact number of
hours you'll be doing per week.If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extra while you do something else on the side.

As I have said, I'd want us to get a head start with things as soon as possible. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores which you can immediately assist me with, I hope we can meet up with the workload eventually.

Permit me to use this week to test your efficiency and diligence towards all this, also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine. I really need to find the perfect person for this job, I'm confident you can take up the challenge and on the long run we should have a relatively sound working relationship between us.

I check my email morning and evening,i will like you to be doing that also,Do try to keep a date.


I have been checking my files and what i would want you to do for me this week is to run some errands out to some of the orphanage home,I do that every month .The funds will be in form of Cash and cetified check payments,and it will be sent over to you from one of my clients and i have some list to email you once you received the funds.The check must be cashed and then follow instructions from the Company.

I will get you more information on that,I will like you to get back to me with your Contact
Details such as:

Full Name:
Full Contact Physical Address:
City/State:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age:

Email : 3035461885@qq.com

Once i received your contact information i will get back to you with the task for this week,Understand you will also be paid as well as its important for me to make the necessary steps before i get to the state.
Hope i am clear with that.
Get back as soon as possible.

Mr. David Smith.

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