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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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Fraud email example:

From: "ANDREW WOODS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andrewwoodsinc1900@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:50:35 -0400
Subject: EMPLOYMENT OFFER.

Dear Sir/madam

How are you doing, this is a awareness to let the public know that we have a job opening for the position of
Accounts Receivable/Payable Clerk at (ANDREW ARTIST LIMITED). Would you like to work from your home
and get paid weekly? (ANDREW ARTIST) specialize in serving the entire countries and a growing export
market, particularly in the supplies of selected Paints including Paints and Arts deco ratings.
ABOUT US:

Our Company, Our Vision, Values, Mission and Operating Principles have been developed to reflect not only
our day-to-day work on our core business
Strategies are to guide us through the challenges and opportunities that come with global expansion and
rapidly changing markets.
Visit our website for details: http://www.andrew-wood.com/

Job Description

Your primary task for now, as a representative of the company is to Coordinate payments from customers
and help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received and
sorted we deliver the product to a customer. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the
products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items.
They order for.

About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through, Cashier Check, Poster Money Order. Based on the
amount involves we have decided to open this new contract-to-hire job position for solving this problem.

Your First Primary task (Collection of Payments):

1. Payment will be issued only via BANK WIRE TRANSFER TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

2. You must be checking your email every day to know when payment has been sent or Wired by our clients.

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, you'll have a lot of free time doing another job, because this job is part time, you'll get good
income ($500usd weekly). But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We will consider
your application if you satisfy our requirements and we are sure you will be an earnest assistant till we start
Running our branch office in your state. Get back to us with below information so that we can add your
mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers.

EMPLOYMENT FORM

Reference No: - LSLCA/2031/ 8161/05
Batch No: R4/A313/2-60
Full name:....................................
Address (not p.o.box): ....................................
City: ...................................
State: ....................................
Zip: ...................................
Country: ....................................
Home Phone:
....................................
Cell Phone: ....................................
Bank name...................................
Have a Credit card (yes/no)............
Email: ....................................
Gender: ....................................
Age: ....................................
Profession: ....................................
Nationality: ....................................

Thanks for Your Total Understanding,Kindly send your full details to our private email (andrewwoodsinc1900@gmail.com)

I wait your full details ASAP,

(Job Processing Unit)
Payments Instructor
ANDREW WOODS ARTIST
United Kingdom,
ANDREW WOODS ARTIST.

Website: http://www.andrew-wood.com/index.html

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