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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "money orders " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: "davidjohnson00@terra.es" <davidjohnson00@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:52:59 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: JOB OFFER


D & J TEXTILE & FABRICS
1-3 Leinster Gardens
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM W2 6DP,
United Kingdom.

My name is DAVID JOHNSON,I am a fabric artist with my wife MARY JOHNSON.We own a small enterprise in London(United Kingdom),We have been selling our products for the last 2 years and have had our work featured on various fabric, cards, textile prints and others. We sell to small galleries and private collectors from all around the world. I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans, they are always offering to pay with MONEY ORDERS, which takes a really long time or face banking network difficulties to cash here in London, United Kingdom.

With regards to your resume posted on HOTRESUMES.COM, Let us inform you that D & J TEXTILE & FABRICS(producer of various clothing materials, batiks, assorted fabrics and traditional costumes) starts a new project in the USA and is looking for a reliable, well-motivated and well-executive person to take care of the project needs. The job requires a flexible
schedule shift. We produce various clothing materials,expensive and high quality batiks,assorted fabrics and traditional costumes which we have clients we supply weekly in the states.

Our clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of money orders which are not readily cashable outside the US {JUST BECAUSE THIS US MONEY ORDERS CAN ONLY BE CASHED WITHIN THE US} so we need someone in the states to work as our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our clients and i will pay him weekly salary{YOU WILL BE PAID 10% FOR EACH TRANSACTION AND WE NORMALLY GET PAID 3 TIMES A WEEK FROM OUR CLIENTS}
All you need to do is receive this payment from our client in the states, get it cashed at the bank and then deduct your weekly pay i.e 10% and forward the balance to the company down here via western union money transfer. You will keep all western union transfer receipts used and forward them to us from time to time, you will also record all transactions on your computer both offline and online in case of any emergency references. We would have told our clients to send the money directly to US via westernunion but they often bring up complaints on wire fees and extra expenses plus it has been a tradition for them to pay us via US MONEY ORDERS/TRAVELLER'S CHEQUES.

Our payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed at the bank, (tax charges on your account will be deducted from our pockets not yours, so you dont have to worry about that) and then deduct your salary and foward the balance to the company via money transfer method i did mention earlier on.
According to this fact we are offering you a position of the bookkeeper of UNITED KINGDOM ltd. If you are interested in starting business activity, please respond this message with your CV or Resume if you have any,
attached to the message with the following information we request of you to commence.


Please forward to us the following Requirements for your application:
1). FULL NAMES:_______________________________________
2). DATE OF BIRTH:_____________________________________
3). GENDER:________________________
4). MARITAL STATUS:_____________________________________
5).FULL POSTAL ADDRESS:___________________________________
6).TELEPHONE NUMBER:________________________________________
7).OCCUPATION:_______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
8).BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WORK EXPIRENCE:____________________
9)DO YOU HAVE A CHECK CASHING ACCOUNT___________YES/NO____________
10)WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR BANK? ____________________________________

AS SOON AS WE CONFIRM ANY PAYMENT COMING TO YOU I WILL LET YOU KNOW AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO SEND FUNDS TO THE COMPANY VIA WESTERN UNION.

Thanks and i await your response.

D & J TEXTILE & FABRICS
Mr. DAVID JOHNSON









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