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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.
• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• 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.
  • danpurchase@inbox.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Daniel Williams" <admin@transworldtrading.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: danpurchase@inbox.com
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:43:51 -0700
Subject: Representative Needed

Good day, My name is Daniel Williams, Executive Marketing officer for Transworld TEXTILE & FABRIC LTD. We've been selling our products for the past few years and we're lately facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling our products to Americans because most customers offer to pay with a US MONEY ORDER/CHECK, which is difficult for us to cash here. We are looking for a representative in the States who will be working for us as a part time worker and we are willing to pay 10% for every transaction. We need someone who would be helping in receiving payments from our clients in the States. An agent who is responsible and reliable that will be handling the payment aspect. The payment will be addressed and sent to you and all you need do is to get it cashed, deduct your percentage and wire the balance back to any of our accountants/lawyers in our regional warehouses. The problem we have is getting someone that is really capable and trustworthy as though we surely have our way of getting anyone that tried to get away with our money. The FBI will surely be interested and get involved. This offer is not going to cost you any amount because all you need to do is to receive payments which will be sent to you via delivery courier from our clients, which would come in form of a money order/check get it cashed and send the cash to our accountants/lawyers via MONEYGRAM MONEY TRANSFER, and required charges for all transfer should be deducted from the money. If you're interested, kindly get back to me ASAP via this email danpurchase@inbox.com so that i can feed you with more informations about the jobs. Looking forward to your response. Yours Faithfully Daniel Williams For Transworld TEXTILE & FABRIC LTD

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