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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. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
  • "cheque " (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. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • geraldboydofficebox@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "geraldboydoffic@terra.es" <geraldboydoffic@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:03:56 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: hello


Boyd Textile & Bead Ltd.
225 Broderick Avenue,
Kumasi, Ghana
Email:geraldboydofficebox@gmail.com

Hello:My Dear,

I am Mr Gerald Boyd, the Managing Director of Boyd Textile & Bead Limited, a company based in Ghana. Our company deals in African prints, textile, fabrics and beads. We have operations located in other West African countries. We also have clients in parts of Europe, U.S.A, Canada and Asia. We always ship products to our clients first and then they send payment afterwards. Online sale of our products and online payment is not possible either because pay pal and credit cards processing, etc don't exist in this region for now. Furthermore processing cheque and wire transfer payments from foreign countries takes a long time here and this affects our cash inflow negatively.

Would you like to assist us by being our receiving agent in your country on a part-time basis? I assure you there is no stress involve herein and you can earn extra cash on the side. As our agent all you have to do is receive payments on our behalf from our clients within your country and wire transfer to us. This method will save us time in
receiving payment and saves us a lot of money.

Please note; you are not paying for anything and no one is asking you for any money nor banking information. We only require your honesty and reliability. You shall receive payments on our behalf either through pay pal or money orders via secured mail. For rendering this valuable service you get to keep 10% of any payment you receive on our behalf. The rest of the money (90%), you shall send to us via wire transfer following instructions.

Whenever there is payment to be made by any of our client, we can send your name as our agent. You will be notified when the payment arrives via mail so you will be available to receive it and wait for further instructions on sending our share of the money. Average weekly payments are between $4,000 to $6,000could be more.

If you are interested in being our receiving-agent, please send your response stating the following information;s/data:

1) Your full names (Name to be written on payment)
2)Address (Where payment can be sent to you)
3) Your private telephone/mobile phone number.
Our contact email:(geraldboydofficebox@gmail.com)

Best regards.
Mr Gerald Boyd.

Mr Gerald Boyd.





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