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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: "Priscilla moore" <employmentfreeoffer@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lantex.co.uk@accountant.com
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:42:09 +0000
Subject: JOB OPPURTUNITY WITH 10% OFFER FOR YOU

Good Day,

Our company is situated in England and we are looking for a Male or Female
representative in the United States of America,Canada and other parts of
Europe who can be working for us as a partime worker and get (10%) on every
work you do. We are happy to inform you that this would not affect your
present state of work.

Am 27/Female / England, london, I work for Lantex Manufacturing Company
Limited (LMCL) in england. http://www.lantex.co.uk . I will like to know
your age ,sex and location, what you do for a living and if retired better
.

Our main factory is located in UK were we extract the raw materials need for
the manufacturing of fabrics from Africa,Asia and South Americans We produce
standard articles for the promotional, catering, hotel and laundry trades.

Our company also manufacture to our customers specific design requirements.
As our main area of business is the promotional market we are constantly
working with our clients on new and innovative designs and provide a fast
and flexible service Blank Tea Towels, Cotton Canvas Bags and Cotton Drill
Aprons are our most popular products used by screen printers and
embroiderers for tourism, schools, special events and promotions

Our company is looking for representative all over United States of
America,Canada and other parts of Europe , someone who would help us recieve
payments from our customers in all this areas because the cost of moving all
over and getting payments is very expensive, we can spend up 2,500 dollars
on every trip,(feeding,accomodation and air tickets) so we need a
representative who will be handling this aspect.

Ouir company is willing to pay 10% of every payment you recieve on our
behalf, and you can still keep your regular job while you work for us.

All you have to do is help us recieve payments from our customers ,these
payments may come in Cheques,Cashiers Cheques, Money Order,Wal-Mat Money
Order and Travellers Cheque, base on what our client decides to pay with.
and they would come to you in your name, so all you need to do is cash the
payment in your bank or cashing point , you will deduct your 10% from the
payment and wire the rest to us via Western Union or Money Gram, to the
given name we provide.

The problem we have is all funds are always paid in US$ and that is not our
local currency here and it takes long to clear our bank and delays our
monthly accounts so we have decide to go through this medium which we have
tried and it reliable.

All we need now is your trust,but we have our way of getting anyone that
gets away with our money via the Security Agencies.( FBI, CIA,etc) to take
action about anyone try to terminate the rule of the company i.e scam the
company's money or breach of the contract of the company.

If you have interested we will like you to write back to us with all your
contact and ful details to facilitate and store in our records. Please
include your phone numbers for us to communicate with you. For further
enquiry and questions, mail us on : lantex.co.uk@accountant.com. We hope to
hear from you as soon as possible.



Thanks a lot for your interested
Mrs.Edward Johnson
Tel:44-703-184-8433 or 44-703-184-3023
FAX:44-870-135-1294



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