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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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From: "Moore Jim" <jimmoore54@msn.com>
Reply-To: plaworldexport2005@walla.com
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:46:39 +0000
Subject: Kindly Confirm Receipt.

Platinum World Import/Export Company.
3 LONG MARSH LANE
WEST THAMESMEAD
LONDON
SE28 0LS
ENGLAND, UK
+44 70-4011-4065


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, Platinum World
Import/Export Company UK. We need someone to work for the company as a
representative/book keeper in the US, Canada.

This is in view of our not having an office presently in the US, Canada. You
don&#8217;t need to have an Office and this certainly won&#8217;t disturb
any form of work you are doing at the moment. We export raw materials such
as non-metallic minerals such as calcite, Manganese Dioxide, Dolomite, Mica,
England Clay, Mangnese Dioxide, and Ferrous (Iron) Oxide. The various
industries we cater to are Paints, Rubber, Plastics, and Construction
chemicals.

There is no financial obligation required from you and this transaction is
100% risk free. This job takes only 1-3 hours per day about the job. You
know, that it's not easy to start a business in a new market (being the US
and Europe). 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 in upfront, it&#8217;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&#8217;s possible because customers can just
&#8220;forget" to pay. Unfortunately we are unable to open bank accounts
in the United state, Canada and in Europe without first registering the
company name. Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put it
on hold, for fear of loosing the customers out rightly.

Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US and Europe soon enough as
international Cheques take about 14 working days for cash to be made
available.

We lose about 75,000 USD and 80,000 euros of net income each month because
we have money transfer delays.

YOUR TASK:

Your tasks are to co-ordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.
You are not involved in any sales. Our sales manager sells products.
Once he makes a sale 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. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on
Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices
you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to forward either by
Money Gram, western Union Money Transfer or into an account. A local Money
transfer takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get
customer's payment almost immediately.

Our payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed in your
bank deduct your percentage and forward the balance to the company via
western union money transfer, money gram money transfer or pay into an
account.
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 and if you want to work for platinum world
import/export Company, 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.


Await your response.

Yours truly,
Mr. Jim Moore.
Publicity Secretary.
http://itrademarket.com/platinumworld


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