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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Taylor" <richard_taylor11@msn.com>
Reply-To: richtaylor2006@excite.com
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:02:20 +0000
Subject: Payment Representative

Our Company Is In Need Of a Financial Payment Representative for All Our
Company 2006 Payments.

Good Day,
Our company is situated in England and we are looking for a Male or Female
representative in the United States of America, Canada and other parts of
Europe who can be working for us as a part time worker and get (10%) on
every work you do. We are happy to inform you that this would not affect
your present state of work.

Am 42/Male / England, London, I work for Lantex Manufacturing Company
Limited (LMCL) in England? http://www.lantex.co.uk.I will like to know your
age, sex and location, what you do for a living and if retired better.
Our main factory is located in UK were we extract the raw materials need for
the manufacturing of fabrics from Africa, Asia and South Americans We
produce standard articles for the promotional, catering, hotel and laundry
trades.

Our company also manufactures to our customer’s specific design
requirements. As our main area of business is the promotional market we are
constantly working with our clients on new and innovative designs and
provide a fast and flexible service Blank Tea Towels, Cotton Canvas Bags and
Cotton Drill Aprons are our most popular products used by screen printers
and embroiderers for tourism, schools, special events and promotions

Our compan y is look ing for representative all over United States of
America, Canada and other parts of Europe , someone who would help us
receive payments from our customers in all this areas because the cost of
moving all over and getting payments is very expensive, we can spend up
2,500 dollars on every trip,(feeding,accomodation and air tickets) so we
need a representative who will be handling this aspect.

Our company is willing to pay 10% of every payment you receive on our
behalf, and you can still keep your regular job while you work for us.
All you have to do is help us receive payments from our customers, these
payments may come in Cheques,Cashiers Cheques, Money Order,Wal-Mat Money
Order and Travelers Cheque, base on what our client decides to pay with. and
they would come to you in your name, so all you need to do is cash the
payment in your bank or cashing point , you will deduct your 10% from the
payment and wire the rest to us via Western Union or M oney Gram, to the
given name we provide.

The problem we have is all funds are always paid in US$ and that is not our
local currency here and it takes long to clear our bank and delays our
monthly accounts so we have decide to go through this medium which we have
tried and it reliable.
All we need now is your trust, but we have our way of getting anyone that
gets away with our money via the Security Agencies.( FBI, CIA,etc) to take
action about anyone try to terminate t he rule of the company i.e. scam the
company's money or breach of the contract of the company.

If you have interested we will like you to write back to us with all your
contact and full details to facilitate and store in our records. Please
include your phone numbers for us to communicate with you. For further
enquiry and questions.
Thanks a lot for your interested
Mr. Richard Taylor

Tel: +44-7023-0563-302
FAX:+44-8701-355-036



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