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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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From: "doris george" <hm_ltd8234032@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hmhibbardltd@inmail24.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:21:48 -0800
Subject: EMPLOYMENT!!! WORK FROM HOME



EMPLOYMENT!!! WORK FROM HOME

Dear Sir/Madam,

Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly?

we are glad to offer you for a job position at our company, H & M Fabrics
Ltd.

We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper
in the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the
USA.

You don’t need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form
of work you have going at the moment. * The average monthly income is about
4000.00 USD. * No form of investments from you. * This job takes only 1-3
hours per day About the job:

We have sales representatives all over the world to distribute our products.

You know, that it's not easy to start a business in a new market

(being the US). 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 upfront, it's very
risky but it should push up sales on 25 percent. Thus we need to get
payments for our products as soon as possible. Unfortunately we are
unable to open Bank

Accounts in the United US without first registering the company name.
Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put them on hold.
For fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash
these payments from the US soon enough, as international Checks take about
14 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about 75,000 USD of

net income each month because we have money transfer delays* Your task is to
coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You
are not involved in any sales. Our makes direct contact for sales of
products. Once orders are received and sorted 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

Checks and Money orders based on the amount involved. YOUR TASK We have
decided to open this new job position for solving this problem. Your tasks
are;

1. Receive payment from Customers

2. Cash Payment 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 be forwarded
either by Money Gramme or Western Union Money Transfer). Local Money
transfers take barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get
customer's payment almost immediately. For example you've got 3000.00USD you
take your income: 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD First month you will
have 15-20 transactions on

3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may calculate your income. For example 10
transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 3500.00 USD Plus your basis monthly
salary is 1000.00 USD Total: 4500.00 USD per month After establishing a
close co-operation with us you'll be able to operate with larger orders and
you'll be able to earn more. Our payments will be issued out in your name
and you can have them cashed in your bank or other Cashing Services. Deduct
your weekly salary and forward the balance to the company via western union

money transfer or money gram money transfer 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 arnest worker and you want to work for
Hennez & Murtz Co., kindly send me your name, address and phone number via
email.You Should Reply to my Private Email (hmhibbardltd@inMail24.com) An
employment form would be sent to you to fill out and after which you would
be contacted by a staff of the company on phone, after which you would be
ready to start working. So I would be expecting to hear from you.

Warmest Regards,




Doris George.
Personnel Manager

Hennez & Murtz,
11C All Saints Road,
Notting Hill, London W11 4hJ
TEL +44-871-720-5190

www.hm.com

hmhibbardltd@inMail24.com

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