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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Fraud email example:

From: "textiles materials" <textilesmaterialslimited@msn.com>
Reply-To: textilesmaterialslimited@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:56:56 +0000
Subject: PARTNERSHIP!!!!

FROM THE DESK OF TEXTILE MATERIALS LIMITED
DAVID WESCOTT
KEMPERING 1032
1104KA AMSTERDAM
NETHERLAND.


DEAR SIR / MADAM


Would you like to work from home and get paid weekly?

Textiles Materials Limited needs a representative in the United States , so
we want to know if you will like to work online from home and getting paid
weekly without leaving or affecting your present job?

It's just that I presently run a textile and fabrics firm I inherited from
my late Dad in Holland and we need someone to work for the company as a
representative in the United states . Our company produces various clothing
materials, batiks, assorted fabrics and traditional costume which we have
clients we supply weekly in the United states .

Our clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of US check
and wire transfer Via stated BANKS BELOW.

1,CHASE MAHATHAN BANK,WELLS FARGO BANK, AND BANK OF AMERICA,
So we need someone in the United States to work as our representative and
assist us in processing the payments from our Clients and we will pay
him/her weekly salary.

ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS RECEIVE THIS PAYMENTS FROM OUR CLIENTS IN THE UNITED
STATES,GET IT CASHED IN YOUR BANK THEN DEDUCT YOUR WEEKLY PAY AND FORWARD
THE BALANCE TO THE COMPANY DOWN VIA WESTERN UNION OR BANK TRANSFER. Our
payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed in your
bank,then deduct your weekly salary of (10% of any amount sent to you) and
forward the balance to the company via westernunion or bank transfer.


SO ALL WE NEED TO DO IS TO FORWARD YOUR INFORMATIONS TO OUR CLIENTS IN THE
UNITED STATES TO ENABLE THEM WIRE TRANSFER OR SEND CHECKS TO YOU.

All we will need is your full name, residential address and phone number so
we can foward it to our clients and they will start making payments to you
as the company's representative in the united states .

WE WILL EMAIL YOU A LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT FROM OUR COMPANY WHICH YOU HAVE TO
REPLY WITH A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INDENTIFICATION ATTACHED TO IT,TO MAKE YOU
A WORKER OF TEXTILES MATERIALS LIMITED NETHERLANDS.

AS SOON AS WE CONFIRM ANY PAYMENT COMING TO YOU, WE WILL LET YOU KNOW AND
WE WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO SEND THE COMPANIES FUNDS TO AND THIS
CAN BE DONE VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER OR YOU CAN SEND MONEY TO THE
COMPANIES ACCOUNT WHICH WE WILL SEND TO YOU AS TIME GOES ON.


HAVE A NICE DAY AND I LOOK FORWARD HEARING FROM YOU.

DAVID WESCOTT
HEAD TEXTILES MATERIALS LIMITED.
AMSTERDAM,NETHERLAND.

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