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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: "Jacob Gary" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stephennewell6@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:48:16 -0600
Subject: JOB UPDATE!!!


Safecount Agency is a well established Evaluating Firm, and we would like to Offer You a Job in which and
Our company is solely responsible for hiring survey agents and recommend them out to Clients.
Now our clients are mostly companies that have a wide network of businesses across Usa , most of our clients have a retail outlet in major cities across America.

What a Survey Agent's Job entails is to go to any of these stores and conduct a survey there,
you will be patronizing their business and conducting a survey at the same time which mostly is in regards to the customer relationship their staffs offer.
We will therefore like to offer you the job position as a survey Agent to do surveys in your area.
Your Job will involve providing feedback to us about the customer experience at our client's locations. Companies use this survey for many reasons,
but all programs involve evaluating whether the company's standards are being met .
During a typical survey session, you will make observations at a specific store, restaurant, or other type of location, while blending in like an average customer.

What a survey report will entail are listed:

1) How long it took you to get services.
2) Smartness of the attendant
3)Customer service professionalism
4)Sometimes you might be required to upset the attendant,
to see how they react to clients when they get tensed(under pressure).

Most companies employ our expertise when people give complaints about their services,
or when they feel there are needs for them to improve their customer service.
Your Identity would be kept confidential as a safety measure.
You will receive $450 on each Assignment you conduct,
and with the number of clients we currently work with, you can be conducting as much as 6-10 surveys weekly.

Our clients include:

Western Union America
Walmart
MoneyGram America

Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide variety of shops,
stores, restaurant and services in your area.
No commitment is made on this job, and you would have flexible hours as it suits you.

If you are interested get back to us with information below information ,
so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional
database.

First name
Last name
Address
City State Zip Code
Home phone & Cell phone.

Once we receive this information to confirm your interest in this job opportunity,
we will inform all our clients about our new recruit and we wait to hear back from them.

A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this email will be appreciated.
Human Resources Manager
Safecount Inc

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