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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: "michael williams" <m_williams237@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:20:46 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Hello am from England and am looking for a Male or Female representative in
the united states of America who can be working for us as a partime worker
and get $300 (7%) on every work u do. and we are happy to inform you that
this would not affect your present state of work
http://www.freewebs.com/lnft/index.htm Temporary Jobs Would you like to work
temporarily and get paid weekly? (Open only to US Citizens and residents)
Dear Sir/Madam, Would u like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get
paid weekly ? we are glad to offer you for a job position at our company,
SiTi Fabrics and Textiles .We need someone to work for the company as a
Representative/Book keeper in the USA. This is in view of our not having an
office presently in the USA. You dont need to have an Office and this
certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment. Our
integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art
textile equipment from the world's leading suppliers. Order processing,
production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated through a
company-wide computer network * The average monthly income is about 4000.00
usd. * No form of investments from you.* This job takes only 1-3 hours per
day About the job:We have sales representatives all over the world to
distribute our products. You know, that it's not easy to start a business in
a new market (being the US). There are hundreds of competitors, close direct
contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which
impede our sales promotion. We have decided to deliver the products upfront,
it's very risky but it should push up sales on 25 percent. Thus we need to
get payments for our products as soon as it possible. Unfortunately we are
unable to open Bank Accounts in the United US without first registering the
company name. Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put
them on hold . For fear of loosing the customers outrightly. Secondly we
cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough, as international Cheques
take about 14 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about
75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays*
Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.You are not invloved in any sales. Our makes direct contact
for slaes of products. Once orders are recieved and sorted we deliver the
product to a customer (usually through FEDEX).The customer receives and
checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for
the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through
Certified Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved. Your Task
:We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.Your
tasks are; 1. Recieve payment from Customers 2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 7% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed 4.
Forward balance afer deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you
will be contacted to send payment to.(Payment is to forwarded either by
Money Gramm or Western Union Money Transfer). www.westernunion.com
www.moneygram.com Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it will give
us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.For example
you've got 3000.00USD You take your income : 210.00 USD Send to us: 2790.00
USD First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD So
you may calculate your income. For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD
gives you 4410.00 USD Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD Total:
5410.00 USD per month After establishing a close co-operation with us you'll
be able to operate with larger orders and you'll be able to earn more.Our
payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in
your bank or other Cashing Services.Deduct your weekly salary and foward the
balance to the company via western union money transfer or moneygram money
transfer We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This
job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time doing
another job, you'll get good income and regular job. But this job is very
challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker
who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant. We are glad
to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you are a serious and
earnest worker andyou want to work for SiTi Fabrics and Textiles,a letter of
employment would be sent to and you would fill it out and send back via
email and you will receive necessary information in 1-48 hours. This will be
sent to you from the Agent that contacted you. SiTi Fabrics and Textiles 1
whitmore road, unit 7-17 woodbridge, ontario canada. L4L 8G4 +44 7040 122
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