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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "thomas walter" <thomaswalter01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: thomas_walter101@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:24:08 -0600
Subject: A PART TIME JOB FOR YOU

Dear Sir/Madam,
Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly ?
I am Thomas walter and I am the Human Resources Director of a company
[Adonis Engineering Ltd] that manufactures Heavy Duty Industrial
Equipment/Machinery.The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom,
although we have about 21 regional administrative offices spread around the
world
We recently began an aggressive market share expansion drive that has seen
us expanding our clientele to the United States and we make bold to say that
we have established a significant foothold as regards percentage market
share/customer base in the American region. We are now seriously looking for
trustworthy representatives in USA, who will help as trade fronts between
us and our ever-growing clientele in the US .I am using this means to ask
if you would be interested to work with us on a part time basis.
Adonis Engineering Ltd is a diversified and versatile Heavy Engineering
company, established in 2001 and specializing in the manufacture of special
purpose machinery and general engineering applications.Our forte
historically has been the design and manufacture of all types of press dies
and roll forming equipment for the building industry. We also manufacture a
full range of ancillary machinery, for example curvers, punching tables,
coil stands and run out tables and also Design and Manufacture Precision
Tooling.
Adonis Engineering produces completed and tested components to exact
standards, providing quality assurance and after sales service
ADONIS ENGINEERING exports worldwide. We have regional Administrative
offices and machinery installations in the UK, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Brunei, China, Dubai, East Timor, Fiji, Hawaii, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia,
Ivory Coast, Laos, Malaysia, Mozambique, Philippines, Saudi Arabia,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Africa, Thailand, UAE, UK, USA and
Vietnam.
My clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of money
orders, but sometimes cheques which are not readily cashable outside the us
so we need someone in the states to work as our representative and assist us
in processing the payments from our clients and i will pay him weekly
salary.basically u cash payments routed to you and deduct your 10% on the
spotwhile you send the balance to Company headquarters or any of our
numerous regional offices that you will be directed to,via western union
money transfer.I will need your full name,address and phone number so we
can foward it to our clients and they will start making payments to you as
the company'
representative in the states
I WILL EMAIL YOU A LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT FROM OUR COMPANY WHICH YOU HAVE TO
REPLY WITH AN ACCEPTANCE LETTER AND A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INDETIFICATION
ATTACHED TO IT
AS SOON AS WE CONFIRM ANY PAYMENT COMING TO YOU I WILL LET YOU KNOW AND I
WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO SEND FUNDS TO THE COMPANY VIA WESTERN UNION
MONEY TRANSFER.
I AWAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.
Check our website for further information http://adonisengr.atspace.com
Our main site will soon be up after ongoing upgrades have been completed.
http://www.adonis-engr.com
Thanks in this regard
Thomas walter
Administrative Director
Human Resources Department
Adonis Engineering Ltd
65 Hawthorn's Boulevard
Sunderland
Sr6 8be
UK
phone.....
personal email thomas_walter4u@yahoo.com


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