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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: "Chang zun" <kinhinghongrep@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:25:15 +0100
Subject: Work From Home & Get Extra Money


Dear ,
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, KIN HING HONG
TEXTILES LTD. we need someone to work for the company as a
representative/book keeper in the UNITED STATE.

This is in view of our not having an office presently in the UNITED STATE..
You dont need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of
work you have going at the moment.From the Site, you will find out the
Company produces the following varieties of clothing materials: - batiks,
assorted fabrics for interior decor, silk and traditional costumes which we
have clients we supply weekly in the states. Our integrated yarn and fabric
manufacturing operations
use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the worlds leading suppliers.
Order processing, production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly
integrated
through a company-wide computer network.

* The average monthly income is about $4000.00
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

Our Company manufactures and sells textile and fabrics, we have seller 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 UNITED STATE.). 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 in 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 because customers can just "forget" to
pay.Unfortunatelywe are unable to open
bank accounts in the UNITED STATE. without first registering the company
name. Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put on hold,
For
fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these
payments from the UNITED STATE. soon enough as international Cheques take
about 24 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about $75,000
of net income each month because we have money transfer delays.
YOUR TASK
===============
Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.

You are not involved in any sales. Our sales manager sells products. Once he
makes a sale 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, cashier's checks and money order
based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position
for solving this problem.
Your tasks are:
===================
1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payments 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 forward 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 $3000.00
You take your income: $300.00
Send to us: $2700.00

First month you will have 15-20 transactions on $3000.00-4000.00
So you may calculate your income.For example 18
transactions on $3500.00 gives you up to $4410.00
Plus your basis monthly salary is $1000.00
Total: $5410.00 per month.

After establishing close co-operation 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 get them cashed in your bank 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 earnest worker and if you want to work for KIN HING HONG
TEXTILES LTD., a letter of employment would be sent to and you would fill it
out and send back via email and you will receive necessary information in
1-48 hours.
Thanks for your time and hope to read from you again.

KIN HING HONG TEXTILES LTD.
Address: 167-169 Yu Chau Street,
Shamshuipo, Kowloon,Hong Kong.
Tel. No.: (852) 2398 1688 (12 Lines)
Fax No.: (852) 2398-3336
web: http://www.kinhinghong.com

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