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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: "FRANKLIN BAKER" <franklin_baker002@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 18:33:17 -0700
Subject: PART TIME JOB OFFER


Tile Shack,
Ceramic Wall & Floor Tiles,
Office of Employment Director,
Tile Shack LYE Branch,
92/93 Pedmore Road,
Lye DY9 8DA, UK.
Website: www.tileshack.co.uk
Tel: +4470331838365

HELLO,
This is to inform you that we have offered you a part time job position
in our satellite representative department as our regional manager,
following our job search procedure; you were short listed in the
initial listing in our job search directory.
ABOUT US:
Ceramic Wall & Floor Tiles, LYE branch. We have our branches in Avon
Rd,Cannock, in Pedmore Rd, Lye, while we have our head office: Craven
Dunnill & Co Ltd T/as TILE SHACK in Stourbridge Road, Bridgnorth all in UK.
Tile Shack is retailers of quality ceramic wall and floor tiles. We have
customers from different parts of the world and our motive is to give
satisfactory services our customers. We are a small business firm that
is well-coordinated in UK. However, we have our representatives and
regional offices in some European countries and few African countries. We
have
developed business relationship in the States but we are yet to have a
representative in the States. This has caused great difficulty for us
to have good business relationship with our US customer.

OUR PROPOSAL:
Tile Shack, Ceramic Wall & Floor Tiles is a small business firm
situated solemnly in the UK. Over the years, we have come to realize that we
have more customers in the US than so many other countries which imply that
we have more transactions in the US when we compare our business
transactions with other countries. This ought to be an improvement to
thcompany but reverse is the case. We realized that these customers are
always offering the payment for their purchases with Money Orders and
Checks. We bluntly refused accepting this mode of payment because we
pass through difficulties cashing these payments; this is because
foreign checks take up to 21 to 28 working days to clear which certainly
delays
our business because we can not make any delivery until we confirm the
payment.

REQUIREMENT:
Proposed worker must be reliable, well-motivated and well-executive,18
years and above; must have access to internet, phone number. Must spend
one or two hours on the internet to check and reply emails per day.Must
have existing bank account where all payment must be cashed for
security purpose. Must have ability to record every transaction information
processed in case of emergency.
YOUR SALARY/PAYMENT DELIVERY:

Your salary is based on commission for the first 2 Months and there
after you will be promoted as the regional manager, and you will be
entitled
to $400 per week which is $1,600 in a month with some allowances which
will
be made to you later.
Your commission will be ten percent (10%) of every transaction you
process on our behalf. This implies that every $5000 you process, you stand
to
gain $500. You will deduct your $500 with any extra cost of sending the
money to the company before sending the rest of the money to the
company."Cash In Hand" or "Cash at counter" is what we request this is to
speed up our supply as we will not supply without receiving payments from
our customers. Once you receive any payment, you will notify us, and then
have is it cashed. You will have to send the money to the company via
Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram or wire transfer (depending
the amount of money processed) as you will be instructed.

INTERESTED APPLICANT:
If you are interested in starting the job, please get back to the
employment director with the following details:
Full Name:
Street address:
City:
State:
Zipcode______
Age: ________
Gender: __________
Phone #: ___
Occupation: _
Job Experience (If any):_
PLEASE NOTE:
Disregard any email asking you to provide your bank details, credit card
information, your ss# and this transaction is risk free and legal to the
American Government.



Reply to franklin_baker002@yahoo.com
Best regards,
Mr. Franklin Baker
Employment Director

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