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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: "RAC INTERNATIONAL" <info@officemail.com>
Reply-To: stewart_coleman@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:37:07 +0530 (IST)
Subject: SUITABLE JOB OFFER

Hello

Our Company RAC INTERNATIONAL is a company based in UK and we are into
insurance, buying and selling cars, incidents and accidents insurance,
with numerous customers home and abroad. We need a representative in the
USA, EUROPE AND ASIA. Who will be in charge of all our payment from the
USA, EUROPE AND ASIA clients/customers. Because most of our customers from
the America pay through credit cards which are not negotiable here in UK,
this brings our quest to employ a credible and trustworthy fellow as our
representative to handle our payments. This would not affect your present
job but serve as another stream of income for you. Being our
representative will only be assisting us in processing the payments from
our clients, we will pay you monthly salary and shall earn about 10% of
every payment you process/recieve. But you need to have a credit card
merchant account there in your country to be able to process our payments.
If you do not have the account, you can open such an account which I
believe would not cost you much to do. Your bank can do that for you so
that you can receive payments from our customers.

In the past, we have lost about 75,000 USD of net income each month
because of money transfer delays. Your task is to coordinate payments
from customers

* The average monthly income is about $3,500.00 USD.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1 - 3 hours per day and 3times a week
* It's Easy- It's risk free
* It requires no buying or selling

Thanks and hope this note explain why we need you to work with our company.
Kindly provide us with the requested details below if you are interested.

NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE
ZIPE CODE:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER:
ACCESS TO INTERNET:?

REGARDS
Stewart Coleman,

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