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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: "Ben Martins" <alibaba_group_incorporation@msn.com>
Reply-To: bmartins_002@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:55:29 +0000
Subject: REQUEST TO BE OUR COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE !!!

Hello,
How are you doing? I am mailing you to bring you a proposal concerning Our company and I hope this finds you in good peace. Our company deals in sales and just recently in the exportation of African Arts and Fashion, we are growing and expanding, we have branches and offices in 16 countries in Africa and we just opened an outlet in Lanarkshire U.K. from where we make our international correspondence.

The purpose of my mail today is to bring you a proposal that will mutually benefit both our company and our representatives abroad, which I would like to propose to you as.

Currently we do not have representatives in Your country where our market seems to have a promising growth, in the last 3 months we have recorded a 70 percent increase in sales and according to demands we are expecting 150 percent increase by the end of next year.

There is one of many few important factors causing setbacks to our
organization to which we have been looking into possible ways of
solution and that is why I am contacting you today. Most of our customers would like to pay with their cashier check, Money order, Credit card or wire transfer into a bank account but our organization is facing serious problem in accepting any form of these payment and this is what has limited our sales and patronage to the statistics as given above.

It is estimated that we have a multiple of the recorded
statistics if we can accept such customers willing to have such payments as it is recorded now that we have more demands than supply. We are in desperate need of representatives in your country who will be able to receive cash on our behalf and will at the end of the week send accumulated cash to our depository account in the United Kingdom.

And this is my proposal to you, I would like to offer you an opportunity to represent us and you will be a beneficiary of a whooping sum as cash flows in. We have two options depending on how you wish to be paid.

1.You could earn monthly, for which we will be paying you a fixed sum of 20,000 US Dollar

2.You could be earning as cash comes in, that means you will have a percentage from every money that comes in,

We will pay you 5 percent of the total cash you send into our account at the end of every week or fortnight as you choose to remit payment.

For informational purpose we rake in between $5,000-60,000 weekly on the average provided our products and services get to our customers according to schedule and this is expected to increase in the next few months. I would like to know if you accept my proposal and if you would like to take part so I could let you know how we are going to go about this and I would tell you what to do.

We anticipate opening a branch in your country comes 2007, this could give you an opportunity to be part of our expanding network if you will, as we expand.

Let me have your...

Full Name, Phone number,Designature,Age and Contact Address if you would like to be part of us and earn.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Regards.
Ben Martins.
CEO,
ALIBABA INCORPORATION.

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