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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "money order " (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)
  • "cashiers check" (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 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.
• 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.

Fraud email example:

From: Official Use <official@officialuse1.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:52:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: We need you to be our represantative!!!


BELFONE INC
#1 Mills Hill Road County,
Greater Manchester
United Kingdom
Phone #:+44-795-665-0176
Greeetings to
you. my beloved, please permit me to introduce myself. My name is Mrs.
Lisa Morgan, we own a company that sells Chinese and African textile
and fabric
material in UK by the name BELFONE INC UK, I am looking for a
trustworthy representative in USA /Canada that can help as a link
between me and my client over there to enhance their payment process.
Above all, USA /Canada have some financial policy that will not let
them send any Monetary Instrument like checks or money order to other
countries for some security reasons.

I would like to know if you will be interested to work from home as our
representative.
Your role is very much IMPORTANT to us, Needless for us to go into
details of this
projects but what we demand of you is to be our foreign Representative.
This is not about sending upfront or spending value
time and money on a non-profitable business.

Your role will be to stand as correspondence office to receive our
payments. My company produces various clothing materials, batiks,
assorted fabrics and traditional costumes.

We have clients we supply Weekly in the states
and my clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of
money orders or cashiers check which are not readily cashable outside
the US or Canada, so we need someone like you in the States/Canada to
work as
our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our
clients and we have agreed to pay him/her a weekly wage, by percentage.

All you need to do is receive this payment from our clients in the US
or Canada and get it cashed in your bank or a cashing center then
deduct your salary 10% and forward the balance to our company down here
via money gram or western union money transfer.

The ranges of payments to be expected will be from US$500-150,000.
Please let me know if you are interested by forwarding your personal
information.
Full Name, Age, Profession,Direct Contact Address, Occupation, Marital
status and Tell/Fax and Cell Number.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Lisa Morgan.

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