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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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Fraud email example:

From: "jamieowen" <jamieowen@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:38:51 -0600
Subject: job offer!


JAMIE OWEN ARTS
Would you like to work temporarily and get paid weekly? (Open only to US Citizens and residents)
Dear Sir/Madam,
We hereby represent our client a world class manufacturer of Fabrics. 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,JAMIE OWEN ARTS, Cocoa, 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 won’t 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 and cocoa which is also use for chocolate which we have clients we supply Weekly in the USA. 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 flow 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: Our company manufactures and sells Cocoa, textile and fabrics. 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 Cheques 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 MAIL OR COURIER). 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 Cheques 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. Received 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 forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer). www.westernunion.com www.moneygram.com Local Money transfers takes 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 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 6300.00 USD Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD Total: 7300.00 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 earnest worker and you want to work for Susan Brown Investment, Cocoa Fabrics and Textiles, an employment Form would be sent to and you would fill it out and send back via email or fax and you will receive necessary information in 1-48 hours.
We will need your Full name, Residential Address and Phone Number so we can foward it to our clients and they will start making payments to you as the company' s representative in the states
This will be sent to you from the Agent that contacted you.
ONLY SERIOUS AND INTERESTED APPLICANTS/WORKERS SHOULD REPLY.
INTERESTED APPLICANTS ONLY, SHOULD MAIL US DIRECTLY:
jamieowenarts@yahoo.com
Contact: Jamie Owen
Chief consultant,
Distribution Branch Office
28 hillside avenue
berdfordshire,Lu3 1Dr
Luton, U.K

J.Owen

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