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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: officalmails@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:57:36 +0200
Subject: ANOTHER PRECIOUS STONE PLAZA LTD!

ANOTHER PRECIOUS STONES PLAZA
LTD

Introduces a position of the manager, responsible for the payments from the
customers and other financial means.

The requirements for the candidates are:

- Being energetic, responsible, honest and industrious.
- Being under 75 years old.
- Having a few (1,5-2) spare hours a day.
- Having a Bank Account ( or open a new one).
- Having a land-line or a mobile phone.
- Having an E-mail address.

Once you are able to attribute to yourself and meet all the above-listed
requirement, you should probably try to apply for an offered position. Our
company remains one of the best successful distributors and manufactured
company.

Recently our company's profit has increased so much, that we decided to
expand into the markets of the UK, Australia, Spain and Morocco, so the
duties of the financial manager in one of these above countries en quire
receiving the payments on his Bank Account from the customers in the nearest
region. After that the employee is supposed to transfer the received financial
means by Western Union or Money Grem to one of our regional trade mission
or one of our partners regional branches (Germany, Swenden, finland, Russia,
Czech, Republic of Austria).

The destination of the Western Union or the Money Grem transfer depends on
the ordered items in any of our regional warehouses.

The minimum rate of interest for a finical manager is 5% out of the whole
amount of each deposit on his Bank Account.

All charges for the Western Union or the Money Grem are covered by ANOTHER
PRECIOUS STONES PLAZA LTD.

We are grateful for your attention!

Your Email has being forwarded by www.monster.co.uk at our request, because
you or somebody else has subscribed for the delivery of the job offers in
the internet.

We wish you good luck and happiness!


You can also reach us with this other address fedecompaies@hotmail.com,
officalmails@yahoo.co.uk, officalmails@thefreesite.com officalmails@walla.com
officalmails@runbox.com, officalmails@tiscali.co.uk

If this E-mail has sent to you by mistake, the heads of ANOTHER PRECIOUS
STONES PLAZA LTD. Brings their apologies. Please just delete this message!

___________________________________________________________

Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005.
Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/
Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/



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