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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)
• 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.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +448717205190 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • hm_gjamesltd@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "George James" <hm976574rltd@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hmgjamesltd@sify.com
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:28:21 +0000
Subject: EMPLOYMENT!!! WORK FROM HOME


Dear Sir/Madam,

Would you like to work online from home/temporarily and get paid weekly?
We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company, H & M Fabrics
Ltd.

We need someone to work for the company as a representative/book keeper in
the USA/ CANADA / MEXICO /SOUTH AMERICA/AUSTRALIA. This is in view of our
not having an office presently in the USA/ MEXICO /SOUTH AMERICA/AUSTRALIA.

You don’t need to have an office and this certainly wont disturb any form of
work you have going at the moment. * 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:
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/ CANADA/ MEXICO /SOUTH AMERICA). 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 possible. Unfortunately we
are unable to open Bank Accounts in the United States 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/ MEXICO /SOUTH
AMERICA/AUSTRALIA soon enough, as international Checks take about 14 working
days for cash to be made available. We loose 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 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 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. Receive payment from Customers

2. Cash Payment 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). 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 3000.00USD you take your
income: 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD First months you will have 15-20
transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may calculate your income. For
example 10 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 3500.00 USD Plus your basis
monthly salary is 1000.00 USD Total: 4500.00 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
Hennez & Murtz Co., kindly send me your name, address and phone number via
email. You should reply to my private email (hm_gjamesltd@sify.com) an
employment form would be sent to you to fill out and after which you would
be contacted by a staff of the company on phone, after which you would be
ready to start working. So I would be expecting to hear from you.

Warmest Regards,
George James
Personnel Manager

Hennez & Murtz,
11C All Saints Road,
Notting Hill, London W11 4hJ
TEL +44-871-720-5190
www.hm.com
hm_gjamesltd@sify.com

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