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

Fraud email example:

From: LARA RANKING <rankingconsultancy@hotmail.com>
Date: 11 Mar 2007 06:46:21 -0000
Subject: PART JOB OFFER!!!!!!!! URGENT RESPONSE IF INTERESTED

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


RANKING GALLERY OF ARTS & CRAFT LIMITED
420 SHERBROOKE STREET, SELKIRK,
MANITOBA, R1A1H5, CANADA.
00912044850582


Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Ranking Lara, I am an artist with my wife Shannon. We own the RANKING GALLERY OF ARTS & CRAFT LIMITED in CANADA.
Our company deals in sales of Arts and Crafts work and just recently in the exportation of African Arts and Fashion. We have been recieving orders from NORTHERN AMERICA,and Russia which we have not been able to process competently since we do not have a payment recieving personel in these Areas.We have decided to recruit payment officers online hence we will be needing a representative to process our payments in these areas - due to delays in processing payments from these areas in the CANADA. RANKING GALLERY OF ARTS & CRAFTS needs a book-keeper in the states, so we want to know if you will like to work online from home, getting paid weekly without leaving orit affecting your present job?

What we offer:
FLEXIBLE PROGRAM: two hours/day at your choice, daytime or evening time.

WORK AT HOME: checking e-mail and going to the bank Part time or full time Professional contact team with very good support and communication skills.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:no selling involved, no kit to buy,we won't charge you anything MONTHLY SALARY:minimum of $450 every two weeks to a total of $900 per month.

COMMISSION: 10% of every money order/check that is cashed instantly "cash in hand" or "cash on counter" is what you get from the total cashed amount.

EXAMPLE If you receive a check of $10,000.00 your net income is $1000,00 You will process at least 2-3 orders per day and you will earn more than $200.00 cash in hand each day.

REMEMBER: THE MORE ORDERS YOU PROCESS- AT A FASTER RATE THE HIGHER YOU STAND TO EARN DAILY.

WHAT WE ASK: Two free hours daily not including weekends, Internet access for sending and receiving e-mails,available means of cashing money orders/checks at your bank using your existing bank account.

IMPORTANT:
You must be over 21 years of age. U.S, CANADIAN,GERMAN OR AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP.

If you meet these conditions please contact us by replying at this e-mail address (rankingconsultancy@hotmail.com) to receive a Representative Contract agreement. Please add your full names,contact or mailing address and phone/fax numbers for quick delivery of payments.
We will never ask you for anything more then that, No bank names, No bank account number, routing number, credit card, passwords, SSN# etc. If anyone asks for those on our behalf please do not give out this informations.This is to ensure your security and non involvement in cases of Identity theft.


WE HAVE ATTACHED AN EMPLOYMENT FORM OF OUR COMPANY TO THIS EMAIL WHICH YOU WILL FILL AND RETURN SIGNED WITH A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION ATTACHED TO IT WHICH WILL BE SCANNED BACK TO OUR EMAIL ADDRESS. AS SOON AS WE CONFIRM ANY PAYMENT COMING TO YOU I WILL LET YOU KNOW AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO SEND FUNDS TO THE COMPANY.


RANKING GALLERY OF ARTS & CRAFT LIMITED
420 SHERBROOKE STREET, SELKIRK,
MANITOBA, R1A1H5, CANADA.
00912044850582

EMPLOYMENT FORM
FIRST NAME..............................
MIDDLE NAME.........................
SURNAME..................................
ADDRESS....................................
CITY.............................................
STATE..........................................
ZIP CODE....................................
COUNTRY....................................
PHONE NUMBER (S)
(FIXED).......................................
(MOBILE)....................................
FAX NUMBER...........................
E-MAIL.......................................
GENDER.....................................
MARITAL STATUS....................
AGE..............................................
NATIONALITY............................
ID NUMBER................................

Thanks as we await your response.Endeavour to send your response to Lara Ranking Reply to rankingconsultancy@hotmail.com

Co-owner
RANKING GALLERY OF ARTS & CRAFT LIMITED
420 SHERBROOKE STREET, SELKIRK,
MANITOBA, R1A1H5, CANADA.
00912044850582




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