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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: "keneth petit" <keneth_petit001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: keneth_petit76@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:40:42 -0900
Subject: RE;CONTACT ME....

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,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.
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 Western Union Money Transfer).

www.westernunion.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

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

MICHEAL PETIT


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