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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: JYU BEN <jyu_ben200722000@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:13 +0800 (CST)
Subject: RESPONSE FROM JYU BEN WOODWORK CO,LTD CHINA.


JYUBEN WOOD WORKS
Singsing Rd.,Heng Tang
128 Industrial Park Tong Xia,
Dongguan, Kwangtung, China.


Hello Nilesh Vidhut,

First i must thank you for picking up the consideration to be our company representative/payment officer in your region . We are a trading company that is into the import and export of goods like furniture,industrial,and office equipment,we export these furniture equipment to U.S,Canada and Europe. Owing to the large amount of clients that we have,we are having difficulty in reaching all of them, therefore we decided to employ representatives in all the states of America,Canada,Europe to help us get to our clients.

Your role in this endeavour is to serve as our agent to get to our customers who buys our product and helping us collecting their outstanding money which they owe to our comapany. Note,you will receive 10% commission on every transaction processed.

From any amount you help us collect from our customers in your region and you will be given an instruction on how to remitte the balance funds to us,in return. Please be adviced that we will have to begin the necessary process of approving you as our agent/partner on our receipt of your understanding and your sincere abilities.

Upon receipt of your mail we will inform you on the next step to follow as regards our approval for you to being our representative.Please recomfirm the information forwarded to us.


1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9.FAX NUMBER:
10.ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
11.COUNTRY:

ALSO BELOW IS OUR COMPANY HEADQUARTER WEBSITE
billiard.sportsnet.com.tw

jyu_ben200722000@yahoo.com.cn

Kindest Regards,
Jyu Ben
MD/CEO.



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