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

Fraud email example:

From: "brent clover" <tesanotext34@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: textile@factory.la
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:48:11 +0000
Subject: Agent Needed

225 Broderick Avenue,
Kumase, Ghana


Hello!

I am Denis White. I am the Managing Director of Tesano Textiles, a company
based in Ghana Africa. Our company deals in African Prints, textile, and
fabrics.

We have operations located in one other West African country. We also have
clients in parts of Europe, U.S.A, Canada and Asia. We always ship products
to our clients first and then they send payment afterwards.
Online sale of our products and online payment is not possible either
because paypal and credit cards processing, etc don't exist in this region
as of now. Furthermore processing cheque and wire transfer payments form
foreign countries takes too long a time here and this affects our cash
inflow negatively.

Would you like to assist us by acting as our receiver agent in your country
on a part-time basis. I assure you there is no stress involved here and you
can earn extra cash on the side. As our agent all you have to do is receive
payments on our behalf from our clients within your country and send cash to
us. This method cuts the time we receive payment and saves us a lot of
money.

Please note; You must be employed, also you are not paying for anything here
and no one is asking you for any money nor banking information. We only
require your honesty and reliability.

You shall receive payments via secure mail. For rendering this valuable
service you get to keep 10% of any payment you receive on our behalf. The
rest of the money (90%), you shall send to us as cash following the payment
instructions set by us.

Whenever there is payment to be made by any client we can send your name as
our agent. You will be notified when the payment arrives via mail so you
will be available to receive it and await further instructions on sending
our share of the money. Average weekly payments is between 3 to 5 thousand
dollars, could be more. If you are interested, please send the following
infomations in this format;

1) First name :
2) Last name :
3) Your residential address: (This must be a secure address where you
can receive payment easily via courier, no P.O Box please.)
4) Working private phone numbers: (including mobile)
5) Sex :
6) Occupation:

NOTE: We assure you that we respect your privacy and your informations are
very well protected.

Send your response to ( textile@factory.la )

Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Denis White.

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