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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: SHELL PETROLEUM COMPANY <shellcompnay@b.org>
Reply-To: <mrsadamsgrace219@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 20:48:45 +0100
Subject: SHELL PETROLEUM COMPANY



--
RECRUITMENT NOTICE SHELL COMPANY 2015-2016

Agreement Publication No. 0022 / l-15/197582 General Directorate of
London.

The Shell company Staff Service is now in search of experienced
personnel
in the following areas: Management Control, Accountancy, Human
Resources
Management, Marketing Project Installation, Business Communication,
Business Rights, Marketing, Science social, international trade,
transport
and logical, Clerical, Bilingual Secretary, Secretariat computerized,
Food
Office, Handler, Credit Card Operator, Project Finance, Insurance,
Engineering, Information Technology, Marketing, Business Action, team
leader, network technician and computer. The activities Requiring no
qualifications: security, service assistant, masonry, industrial
electricity, driving, working on the oil fields, monitoring shop etc
...
We seek above all people capable of adapting to our working
environment.
The workforce is rare here in LONDON we had opened our market to the
rest
of the world to enable graduates from other countries who are without
permanent employment could touch with reality, we organize this
recruitment
in the context of promoting employment. Shell company has
representatives
in some countries that operate between their country and the
Directorate
mainly that of LONDON, which was chosen by the board to take on the
task
easier for us in the recruitment of new personnel from the Africa,
Asia,
the Caribbean and other topics related to the interest of our beloved
company.

NB: If your application holds our attention, the Africa area of
representation will send the filled form and send back to join us to be
here.

60 SHELL COMPANY DIRECTOR LONDON.

ALL APPLICATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL MRS ADAMS
GRACE.

WWW.SHELL.CO.UK

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