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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: "BorStevens Financial Consultancy" <stevboris@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: boris-stevens@finconsultant.com
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:58:02 +0000
Subject: JOB OFFER!! MAKE MONEY WITHOUT STRESS!! NEED NO MONEY TO START!!!!!!

JOB OFFER!! MAKE MONEY WITHOUT STRESS!! NEED NO MONEY TO START!!!!!!

NO MONETARY INVESTMENT!!!!!!!!

YOU DO NOT NEED TO LEAVE YOUR PRESENT JOB!!!!!!!

THIS IS A BUSINESS YOU CAN DO FROM HOME WIHTOUT EXTRA EFFORTS!!!!

ALL YOU NEED IS JUST A LITTLE OF YOUR TIME!!!!!!!!

Dear Sir/Madam­

Are you really looking for job?

One of the biggest Finance Companies in Eastern Europe is glad to offer excellent work providing real money for you!! No need to invest money or buy products in order to work with us­


About us:

BorStevens Finance Company, Kiev, Ukraine was founded in 1992 by a team of antiquities experts­ By now our company has grown from a small company with 7 employees to an international group with several representative offices in different countries of the world­ Nowadays we are not just selling and buying antiques, but are also dealing with organizations of international exhibitions, seminars, tours and many other things­.

Our vacancies:

Now clients of our company conduct financial operations all over the world including UK, CANADA and USA etc, but due to insufficient perfection in Banking System in Eastern Europe we have some difficulties in translation and coordinaton of our oversea businesses, therefore we are planning to open branches in which we require new financial assistants or operators who will be responsible to accept payments from our numerous oversea clients­, base on this we provide and offer work at home or from your present office, you will have an opportunity for making money for yourself without extra eforts.

PRESENTLY, we are looking for financial assistants that will be responsible to accept payments from oversea clients through bank transfer or any other legally accepted ways of payment, because of imperfection of banking system­ our oversea clients have some difficulties with sending bank translations and cheques to East Europe­ You can make up to 5 % commission from every transfer you will receive on our behalf while the rest would be forwarded or transfered to our company agents or representative in Asia or Europe, there is no limit to how much you can make weekly.

You can become fabulously rich if you partner with us and you are sure to have a good future. If our offer is interesting to you, please feel free in sending a reply mail to our below contact address.
For more information our crew of Human Resources are ready to answer all your questions:­

If you are ready to begin work with us we would send to you a registration form afterwhich we would allocate to you a registration / Identification tag.

Best Regards
BorStevens Financial Consultancy
Vul. Petra Sagaidachnoho 10, Kiev
Ukraine
Tel: +380444173628, +380444167972
Fax: +3804441736283
Email: boris-stevens@finconsultant.com <mailto:boris-stevens@finconsultant.com>


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