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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: John Xin <john37xin@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: johnlimited@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:28:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Job Opportunity...


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: john37xin@yahoo.com

Dear Sir/Madam,


Would u like to work online from home/temporarily and get paid weekly? We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company, KIN HING HONG TEXTILES LTD we need someone to work for the company as a representative/book keeper in the USA, Canada and major European countries .

This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA, Canada and major European countries. You don’t need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.

* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 usd.

* No form of investments from you.

* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

Our Company manufactures and sells textile and fabrics, we have seller all over the world to distribute our products.

You know, that it's not easy to start a business in a new market. There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion. We have decided to deliver the products in 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 USA, Canada and major European countries without first registering the company name. Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put on hold, For fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the USA, Canada and major European countries 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

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Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process.

You are not involved 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, Money orders OR wire transfer into bank account based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.

Your tasks are:

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1. Receive payment from Customers

2. Cash Payments at your Bank

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.

Payment is to forward either by Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer.

Local Money transfers take 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 on 3000.00-4000.00 USD

So you may calculate your income.

For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you up to 4410.00 USD

Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD

Total: 5410.00 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.

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 only for the worker who satisfies 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 KIN HING HONG TEXTILES LTD, a letter of employment would be sent to and you would fill it out and send back via email and you will receive necessary information in 1-48 hours.


KIN HING HONG TEXTILES LTD

207-129 Yu Chau Street,

Shamshuipo, Kowloon,

Hong Kong.

Tel/Fax: 852-301-40145





- John Xin


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