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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Lim Lefeng" <newyorkkabus5@aol.com>
Reply-To: limlefenglivingword@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:53:24 +0100
Subject: Cash Manager Wanted


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Hello,
I, once again try to reach you as the former email was returned undelivered, let me know if you receive this. Mr. Lim LeFeng, founder of LeFeng Corporation, China (see
http://www.lefeng.com/
) with vast investments in 4 countries is requesting your service as Cash Management Partner in the USA.
Lim LeFeng owns portfolio in 23 businesses in USA worth approximately US$217m via Joint Ventures (JV), Equity Finance Partnerships, and Angel Investments with estimated annual Returns-on-Investments (ROI) of $17.5m. (Approximately US $1.45 monthly). We do have backlog of debts running into $2m and concurrent ROIs in excess of $500,000 monthly awaiting collections, as our present partners are overwhelmed with volumes of inflow.
Mr. Lim LeFeng seeks the service of a USA Cash Management Partner (remotely) on a part time basis.The process is simple and straight-forward: All you have to do is send an online invoice from your computer to about 21 Payeers (Vendors, JV partners, debtors etc) on a weekly/monthly basis and they will make payments directly to your bank account and you keep 5% of each collection plus fixed remuneration of $3,000 per month.
Estimated annual commission for our current collectors is approximately $200,000 but paid on a case by case basis of 5% of each batch of funds collected. Responsibilities will include but not limited to the following:
1.Receipt of monthly ROIs and/or debts from investment partners in over 20 businesses on weekly/monthly basis.
2.Remittance of funds received on (1) above as will be advised by Lim LeFeng or his agents.
3.Record keeping of all cash flow (inflow &amp;outflow) in (1) and (2) above for annual auditing.
4.Direct deduction of your 5% from each payment as it arrives your depository
Requirements: Ownership of a Business Account, American Residency and a working knowledge of Internet &amp; basic arithmetic.
SALARY: 5% of each collection received job is part-time from home and takes less than 30 minutes per day.
DURATION: Permanent.
if you are Interested submit your entry and we will call you.


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