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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: "I N INTERNATIONAL" <txtilescmpy00@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ken_jhsn@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:47:14 +0000
Subject: Would you like to work from home and get paid every day?

Dear Sir/Madam,

I & N International Limited is a Burns textile company. We produce and
distribute clothing
materials such as batiks,art materials and crafts,assorted fabrics and
traditional costume
worldwide.We have reached big sales volume of textile materials in the
Europe and now are
trying to penetrate the US market.Quite soon,we will open representative
offices or
authorized sales centers in the US and therefore we are currently looking
for people who will
assist us in establishing a new distribution network over there.The fact is
that despite the US
market is new for us we already have regular clients also speaks for itself.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FOR US.

But we have a problem that is setting us back.We have some problem
collecting our
payments from our US clients.The international money transfer tax for legal
entities(companies) in Latvia is 25%,where as for the individual,it is only
7%.There is no
sense for us to work this way, while tax for international money transfer
made by a private
individual is 7%.That's why we need you! We need agents to receive payment
for our textiles(
in money orders,cheque or bank wire transfers) from our clients in the US
and to resend the
money to us via Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer.This way we will
save money
because of tax decreasing.

JOB DESCRIPTION
1. Recieve payment from Clients.
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 be forwarded either by Money Gram
or Western
Union Money Transfer).

HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN?
10% from each operation! For instance: you receive 7000 USD via cheques or
money orders on
our behalf.You will cash the money and keep $700(10% of $7000) for yourself!
At the
beginning your commission will equal 10%,though later it will increase up to
12% to 15%!

ADVANTAGES.
You do not have to go out as you will work as an independent contractor
right from your
home or office.Your job is absolutely legal.You can earn up to $3000-4000
monthly
depending on time you will spend for this job.You do not need any capital to
start.You can do
the Work easily without leaving or affecting your present Job. The
employees who make
efforts and work hard have a strong possibility to become managers.Anyway
our employees
never leave us.

MAIN REQUIREMENTS.
(1).18 years or older legally capable,responsible and ready to work 3-4
hours per week.
(2).You must have PC knowledge,e-mail and internet experience(minimal). And
please
know that Everything is absolutely legal. Our payments will be issued out in
your name and
sent to your contact address. If you are interested, please get back to me
as soon as possible
via email. N: B, Please send to me the listed information below:

APPLICATION
First name :
Last name :
Full Address :
City :
State :
Country :
Zip Code :
Tel numbers :
Sex :
Date of birth :
Nationality :
Are you employed/self employed? :............................
Best means of communication?email/phone :...........

I will need this informations from you for my record,also if you require
more information ,do
not hesitate to contact me,i will give you a call asap.please send your
replies to
ken_jhsn@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks and God bless.
Yours faithfully,

Keneith for I&N international.
Alpha Ho,79 High street
Crowthorne
RG11 7AD
UK.

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