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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: Zhangya Corporation
Reply-To: <revbernardaa@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:41:24 +0100
Subject: WORK AT HOME

Good day Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Zhang Ya, founder of Zhangya Corporation, China with vast investments in 4 countries is requesting your service as Cash Management Partner in the USA.Zhang Ya owns portfolio in 23 businesses in USA worth approximately US$217m via Joint Ventures (JV), Equity Finance Partnerships, and Angel Investments with estimated annual Returns-on-Investments (ROI) of $17.5m. (Approximately US $1.45 monthly). We do have backlog of debts running into $2m and concurrent ROIs in excess of $600,000 monthly awaiting collections, as our present partners are overwhelmed with volumes of inflow.Partner with us.

Mr. Zhang Ya seeks the service of a USA Cash Management Partner (remotely) on a part time basis.
The process is simple and straight-forward: All you have to do is send an online invoice from your computer to about 23
Payors (Vendors, JV partners, debtors etc) on a weekly/monthly basis and they will make payments directly to your bank
account and you keep 10% of each collection.Estimated annual commission for our current collectors is approximately $600,000 but paid on a case by case basis of 10% of each batch of ROI collected. Responsibilities will include but not limited to the following:
1. Receipt of monthly ROIs and/or debts from investment partners in 23 businesses on weekly/monthly basis.
2. Remittance of funds received on (1) above as will be advised by Zhang Ya or his agents.
3. Record keeping of all cash flow (inflow &outflow) in (1) and (2) above for annual auditing.
4. Direct deduction of your 10% from each payment as it arrives your depository (irrespective of the amount involved)

We have covered 5 States which we think isn’t enough as our customers increased rapidly over the last 2 years. The good news is we have set up a merchant account to receive customers payments online and over the phone but we can’t do this on our own. So this is an opportunity for you to help us make this Co-operation today and start making money from home being our agent accepting payments. it’s quite easy, you can apply for any merchant account, Link it to your account and start receiving payments as much as $5000.00 per day and you’ll have 10% of every sale you take in total per day.

There are several merchant services that could be really easy for you to use on your smart phone . It’s that simple, For example Gopayment and Square register good service you can look up.I want to assure you that this is 100% legal and we are doing this to grow, you can make changes for the better so you can help us grow for a better tomorrow. Thank you once again for going through this message and you can always write me back on here for further information.


>From Mr.Zhang Ya
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Zhang Ya
mr.zhangyaa@gmail.com
M-Fabrics, Inc

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