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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "UNITED STATES AID AGENCY" <agency@aol.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: barry_joe2000@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:16:43 -0700
Subject: UNITED STATES AGENCY

Goodday,

The United States Aid Agency is currently screening applicants for the postion of USAAID AGENCY PROGRAM Director in thier various countries of residence with a very attractive salary .

JOB DESCRIPTION

AS the Program Director you will be responsible for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of USAAID program portfolio. The Program Director forms part of the senior management team of country office along with the Director of Finance and Director of Administration.
These programs are focused in the following sectors: microbusiness/microcredit, agriculture, water & sanitation, health and nutrition, community mobilization, conflict resolution and civil society development.
USAAID works in partnership with other international NGOs, local NGOs, community based organizations (CBOs), local government and line ministries. Funding originates from USDA, European Commission, Community Fund, Taiwan, British Foreign Office, SIDA, UNICEF and Cyprus Bank.

The Program Director will spend 50% of his/her time in new program development, and 50% coordinating on-going programs. New program development will entail liaising with donors and partners, assessing needs, conceptualizing designs, writing proposals and drafting workplans for start-up and implementation. The Program Director will work closely with sectoral managers and project directors to integrate activities, and ensure that programs are on track. Monitoring and evaluation will be an important responsibility as well as reporting to headquarters and donors.


Responsibilities/Duties:


1. Coordinate and provide programmatic support to sectoral managers (e.g. agriculture, health) and project coordinators to integrate to the fullest extent possible.

2. Under the guidance of the Country Director, identify new programmatic opportunities for USAAID and lead the conceptualization of new project designs with the participation of USAAID staff, partners and beneficiaries.

3. Under the supervision of the Country Director, prepare project proposals responding to donor announcements as well as write unsolicited proposals – and respond to questions/requests by donors to make amendments to project documents.

4. Under the guidance of the Financial Director, assist in monitoring program expenses, as well as the preparation of budgets for annual plans, proposals and related activities.

5. Facilitate coordination between USAAID program staff and international NGO partners, local NGO partners, and community based organizations in the design and implementation of joint projects.

6. Under the guidance of the Country Director, liaise with donors, cultivating strong relationships between donor staff and USAAID in your country of residence

7. Prepare monitoring and progress reports for USAAID Headquarters, donors and the government of Your country.

8. Assist in developing job descriptions, recruiting and interviewing candidates and evaluating programmatic personnel.

9. Periodically review USAAID strategy in your country of residence , and with the support of program staff, make adjustments to this strategy, including the development of indicators for an eventual phase out.

10. Organize periodic meetings of program staff to facilitate coordination and sharing of experiences and lessons learned.

11. Develop the Terms of Reference of project evaluations and baseline surveys and where appropriate participate in evaluation activities.

12. Travel to the field to monitor projects and support staff for making changes/improvements for keeping projects on track, and achieving outputs and objectives. Ensure that project quality is maintained at the highest level of standards.

13. Coordinate with other USAAIDS program staff in the region, particularly in regional projects such as the Community Investment Action Program (CAIP), the Peaceful Communities Initiative (PCI), DIPECHO (Disaster Preparedness) and the Regional Health and Sanitation Project.


14. Identify training needs for USAAIDs program staff and NGO partners and develop, implement and maintain training plans as necessary.

15. Mentor national staff to assume higher responsibilities for program management.

16. Liaise with headquarters technical staff to coordinate program development, sharing of lessons learned and to obtain technical backstopping as needed.

19. Other duties as assigned.

Qualified applicants are to attend a training program under R. Thomas Consulting & Training in Washington U.S.A.
please contact

Tel: 1-206-339-4862,Fax:1-206-339-4862 for futher details












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