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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "money orders " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
  • "cheques " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• MoneyGram money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. Along with Western Union it is a preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • holmes_rep@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "INTERNATIONAL LIMITED" <handsintlimited@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:03:41 +0000
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE!!!!!!!!!

H&S International Limited
3 LONG MARSH LANE
WEST THAMESMEAD
LONDON
SE28 0LS
ENGLAND


07-02-06
Dear Sir/Madam,
Would u like to work online from home/temporarily and get paid weekly?
We are glad to offer you a job in our company,H&S International Limited.We
need people to work for the company as representatives/book keepers in the
states.*us Only*
This is in view of our not having an office presently in the US.You dont
need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you
have going at the moment.
The Company produces the following varities of clothing
materials:-batiks,assorted fabrics for interior decor,silk and traditional
costumes which we have clients we supply weekly in the states.
Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use
state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world's leading suppliers.Order
processing,production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated
through a company-wide computer network.
* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 usd.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

About the job:
our company manufactures and sells textile and fabrics.
We have sales representatives all over the world to distribute our
products.It's not easy to start a business in a new market (being the
US)There are hundreds of competitors,close direct contacts between suppliers
and customers and other difficulties,impede our sales promotion.We have
decided to deliver the products upfront,it's very risky but it should push
up sales on 25 percent.
Thus we need to get payments for our products as soon as possible because
customers can just "forget" to pay. Unfortunately we are unable to open bank
accounts in the US without first registering the company name.Presently with
the amount of Orders we have,we cannot put them on hold.For fear of loosing
the customers outrightly.Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US
soon enough as international Cheques take about 14 working days for cash to
be made available.
We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money
transfer delays.

YOUR TASK
Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.
You are not invloved in any sales.Our sales manager sells products. Once he
makes a sale we deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX).
The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the
customer has to pay for the products.
About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Cheques
and Money orders based on the amount involved.
We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.

Your tasks are;
1. Recieve payment from Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance afer deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices
you will be contacted to send payment to.
(Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gramme or Western Union Money
Transfer.
Local Money transfers takes barely hours,so it will give us a possibility to
get customer's payment almost immediately.
For example you've got 3000.00USD
You take your income : 300.00 USD
Send to us: 2700.00 USD
First month you will have 15-20 transactions of 3000.00-4000.00 USD.
For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 6300.00 USD
Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD
Total: 7300.00 USD per month
After establishing close co-operation you'll be able to operate with larger
orders and you'll be able to earn more.
Our payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed in
your bank deduct your weekly salary and foward the balance to the company
via western union money transfer or moneygram money transfer
We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job takes
only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time doing another job,
you'll get good income and regular job.
But this job is very challenging and you should understand it.We are looking
for workers who satisfy our requirements and will be an earnest assistant.
We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you are a
serious and earnest worker and if you want to work for H&S International
Limited,send a mail to our rep cordinator Rita Holmes at
holmes_rep@yahoo.co.uk a letter of employment would be sent to you fill it
out and send back via email and you will receive necessary information in
1-48 hours.

Laura Nataniel
H&S International Limited


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