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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Parentela Angelina" <jjtextil01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jjtextile011@yahoo.it
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:12:38 +0100
Subject: TEMPORARY JOB OFFER

TEMPORARY JOB OFFER
Would you like to work temporarily and get paid weekly?(Open only to US
Citizens and Residents)

Dear Sir/Madam,
Would u like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly? We
are glad to offer you for a job position at our company, J & F Fabrics and
Textiles 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. Our integrated yarn and fabric
manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the
world's leading suppliers. Order processing, production monitoring and
process flows are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer
network.
* 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 it 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/UPS).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 Gram 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: 210.00 USD Send to us: 2790.00 USD First month you
will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may calculate
your income. For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 4410.00
USD Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD
Total: 5410.00 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 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 workers who satisfy our requirements and will be
earnest assistant.We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel
that you are a serious and earnest worker and you want to work for J &F
Fabrics and Textiles, kindly
send me your name, address and phone number via email. jjtextile011@yahoo.it
with all your details so that I will direct you on what to do.

Regards

Parentela Angelina.

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