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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:
  • "% of every payment" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
  • "cheques " (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 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: "walkerp2010 Gazeta.pl" <walkerp2010@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:41:34 -0700
Subject: JOB OFFER


Hello,
Please can I have your attention for a moment? i just come across
your name and address via the internet and I would be very interested in
offering you a job in which you could earn alot.
This job would be based on commission terms, it would involve quite a
handful of trust and honesty. If you would be interested in including a
good-paying,part time job to your daily list of activities,I would be glad
to brief you more.before I go further I thought I'd inform you of both who
you would be working for and what you would be doing. As I have previously
informed you,well we are into Manufactures of Fabrics and Textiles with
numerous customers home and abroad and here is our site
http://www.fabricuk.com. We produce various clothing
materials,batiks,assorted fabrics and traditional costume. We need a
representative in the UNITED STATE ,ENGLAND, SPAIN, CANADA, GREECE
,GERMANY,IRELAND, DUBLIN,SCOTLAND, NICE, FRANCE, ITALY and HOLLAND who will
be in charge of all our payment from the United Kingdom clients/customers
because most of our customer from any part of the country pay us through
cheques which are not negotiable here in UNITED STATE ,ENGLAND, SPAIN,
CANADA, GREECE ,GERMANY,IRELAND, DUBLIN,SCOTLAND, NICE, FRANCE, ITALY and
HOLLAND. This brings our quest to employ a credible and trusthworthy fellow
as our representative to handle our payments. This would not affect your
present job but serve as another stream of income to your goodself. Being
our representative and assisting us in processing the payments from our
clients, we will pay you weekly salary and shall earn about 10% of every
payment .Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with
the payment process.You are not involved in any sales. Our sales manager
sells products. Once he makes a sale we deliver the product to a customer
(usually through UPS).The customer receives and cheques the products. After
this has been done, the customer has to pay for the products.About 90
percent of our customers prefer to pay through UNITED STATE ,ENGLAND, SPAIN,
CANADA, GREECE ,GERMANY,IRELAND, DUBLIN,SCOTLAND , NICE, FRANCE, ITALY and
HOLLAND cheques based on the amount involved.We have decided to open this
new job position for solving this problem.Your tasks are;

1.Recieve payment from Customers
2.Cash it at any cashing point or at your banks and
you will deduct 10% which will be your
percentage/pay on Payment processed
3.Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices
you will be contacted to send payment to.(Payment is to forwarded either by
Money Gram or
Western Union Money Transfer. Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so
it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.
We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job takes
only 3-7 hours per week.
You'll have a lot of free time doing another job, you'll get good income and
regular job. But this job is very challenging and you should understand it.

We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will
be an earnest assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you. If
you feel that you are serious about this and earnest worker. Here is the
attached employment form if really you want to be our representative. Please
get back to me as soon as possible so that you will be update quickly about
the next step and let you know when you will be recieving the first payment


* EMPLOYMENT FORM*


*FULL NAME...................
FULL ADDRESS....................
PHONE NUMBERS.....................
FAX NUMBERS..................
OCCUPATION.......................
WORKING EXPERIENCE.......................
GENDER.......................
MARITAL STATUS.......................
AGE.......................
NATIONALITY.......................*

So we can forward it to our clients and they will start making payments to
you as the company's representative in the states and i would be glad if i
can hear from you with all the information i ask for.

Thank You,
S & A International Ltd.

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