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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: Cathie Jones <truecathie_jones@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:54:48 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: RICOH COMPANY LIMITED (RCL) JOB OFFER



RICOH COMPANY LIMITED (RCL)
RICOH (UK)
Head Office
Atlantic House
Holboru Viaduct,London
ECIA 2FG
Phone +447023053782
+447023053781
Fax +448709126059
Ref:Ricoh/231/2006/U

First i must thank you for picking up the consideration to be our payment officer via our costumers who are already and able to pay some of the outstanding bills. Well we are an organisation that started many years ago although there are quite some numbers of such organisations here in the UK but ours is made with a difference.

Surprise to say that your role in this endeavour is to serve as our agent to get to our customers who buys our product and helping us collecting their outstanding money which they owe to our comapany, you will be given a commission of 10% for any payment made to you and you will be given instruction on how to remitte the balance funds to us in turn.

Please be adviced that we will have to begin the necessary process of approving you as agent/partner on our receipt of your understanding and your sincere abilities.Upon receipt of your mail we will inform you on the next step to follow as regards our approval
for you to being our representative.

You can as well forward a detailed information about your self and your identity(That is your names,company name if any,your mailing address,not P.O.BOX, and direct phone contact) so that we can continue with our verification. Endeavour to indicate your reference number as above
in all of your correspondence with us.

Get back to me as soon as possible so that i can fashion you with the next step to follow.
Notice: As principal and agent/representative,honesty and promptness is our watch word.
Debts owed to this organisation is due to goods supplied to our customers based on the credit facilities which they possess with us.Most times.,monies they owe are paid up first thing after delivery of their goods.

Now.,as agent for collections you are obliged to collect all our monies owed upon a payment schedule that shall be prepared for you at out account department,all we do is to forward your
contact details to our customers who shall call you in order that you both discuss the mode payment.

Moreso.,payments are due for amounts from the ranges of $30,000-$500,000. Most times some of our agents agree to collect debt of lower range due to the status of their account in
order not to have any difficulty upon clearance of funds.With this we advice that you state to us of what range of amount your account can hold in other to avoid any flaws after our
monies are collected by you then we shall give you our account coordinates for you to make a swift wired transfer to us here in UK as the case maybe


Be aware that you are entitled to a 10% commission for each collection you make which shall be deducted before any transfer is made. We sincerely hope that we have rightly informed you on issues and we expedite your actions when the time comes.

Mrs Cathie Jones (CEO)
RICOH COMPANY LIMITED (RCL)
RICOH (UK) Head Office
Atlantic House
Holboru Viaduct,London
ECIA 2FG
+447023053782
ww.ricoh.co.uk




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