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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: "FUNDING SOURCE LLC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michael_rimbert009@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:12:52 -0200
Subject: CURRENTLY HIRING.

Dear Applicant,
 
 
May I interest you to take part in our European Payment Opportunity Scheme (EPOS) .
 
If you were not selected last year for this opportunity, we have shortlisted you as one of the front runners to join our ever expanding community.
 
Here's introducing our parent Company Bobinados (http://bobinadososes.com) involved in the design and production of bobbins and solenoids for electromagnetic applications in home furniture and fittings.
 
FUNDING SOURCE LLC,  is a representative of Bobinados in the United states, please feel free to check our website for more information.
 
We have a wide variety of Customers across the United States that use our applications as major Components in various appliances.
 
Due to the various wire transfer and bank costs associated with fund transfer between Countries coupled with the fact that we are not fully operational in the United States, we would like to reach out to you today as a work at home scheme, whereby you can serve as an intermediary between us and our U.S. based customers.
 
Your effort will usually be rewarded in form of our usual standard commission per transaction (10% of any deposit) and you could be earning as much as $2,000 on a weekly basis.
 
You do not need to invest any amount of money for this scheme and it is 100% legitimate and tax free.
 
In summary it involves our Customers sending you funds, confirming the deposits removing your commission and forwarding the balance directly to us. When funds are confirmed, the goods are dispatched to the customers.
 
The scheme saves our Company a lot of wire transfer costs as the customer payments comes in small amounts and cheaper to send out to our parent Company in bulk.  It also reduces the delivery time to our products to our US based customers, since dispatch can be made same day the customer the funds.
 
<-customer protection incentive-
 
We strongly protect our clients/customers against check fraud in the mail, and haven been a victim myself we have devised a customer protection incentive where our clients pay into a prepaid card system.
 
Our designated card company will mail you your personal prepaid, and when money is deposited, you withdraw the funds at your local ATM. No bank account needed!
 
We deal with a lot of weary clients and this measure proves how legitimate the scheme is, this is a nice incentive to make extra cash, just running errands.
 
<-If Interested-
 
Please provide me with your information so as to forward to our new applicants processing department for review and approval.
 
* Full Names: ………………..
* Residential Address : …………..
* City, State & Zip code: …………
* Contact Home or Cellphone number(s): ………..
* Sex/Age ................
* Email: …………….
 
 
Have a great Day
 
Kind Regards,
 
MICHAEL RIMBERT
FUNDING SOURCE LLC

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