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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
  • "cheques " (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
• MoneyGram money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. Along with Western Union it is a preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • ken_jhsn@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "I N FABRICS TEXTILES" <iandnfabcrix@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ken_jhsn@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:27:18 +0000
Subject: Would you like to work from home and get paidevery day?

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr keneith looking for a Male or Female representative in the united
states of America
who can be working for our company.

We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company, L&N 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 dont need to
have an Office and
his certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.

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 outrightly. 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 invloved in any sales. We makes direct contact for slaes
of products.
Once orders are recieved 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 Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved.

our Task :We have decided to open this new job position for solving this
problem.Your tasks
are; 1. Recieve payment from Customers 2. Cash Payments at your Bank 3.
Deduct 10% which
will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed 4. Forward balance afer
deduction of
percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment
to.(Payment is to
orwarded either by Money Gramm or Western Union Money Transfer).

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
foward the balance to the company via western union money transfer or
moneygram money
transfer

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 L&N Fabrics and Textiles, would sent you a
form which you
would fill it out and send back via email and you will.Reply back to my
private email ken_jhsn@yahoo.co.uk so that i can email you the form to
fill.

L&N Fabrics and Textiles

Alpha Ho,79 High street
Crowthorne
RG11 7AD
UK

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