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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: robins charlie <joboffer2@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: TEMPORARY JOB OFFER


TEMPORARY JOB OFFER

Dear Sir/Madam,

Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and
get paid weekly? We are glad to offer you for a jobposition at our company, LINEN FABRICS We need someone to work for the company as a Local SalesRepresentative/Book keeper in the USA/Canada. This is in view of our not having an office presently in theUSA/Canada. Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world's leading suppliers. Order processing, productionmonitoring and process flow are seamlessly integratedthrough a company-wide computer network.

* The average monthly income is about $4,000.00 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 todistribute our products. You know, that it's not easyto start a business in a new market (being the US).There are hundreds of competitors, closedirect contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion.We have decided to deliver the products upfront, it'svery risky but it should push up sales on 25 percent.We need to get payments for our products as soon aspossible.Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in the United States without first registeringthe company name. Presently with the amount of Orderswe have, we cannot put them on hold. For fear ofloosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot
cash these payments from the US soon enough, as international Checks take about 14working days for cash to be made available. We lose
about 75,000 USD of net income each month because wehave money transfer delays.You are not involved in anysales. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX/UPS).The customer receives and checks theproducts. After this has been done the customer has to pay for theproducts. About 90 percent of our customers prefer topay through Certified Cheque and Money orders based onthe amount involved.

YOUR TASK ARE:
1. Receive paymentfrom 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 toany of the offices you will be instructed to sendpayment to. Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank or otherCashing Services. Deduct your weekly salary and forwardthe balance to the company via western union moneytransfer 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. This job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are
looking only for the worker who satisfies ourrequirements and will be an earnest assistant. We areglad to offer this job position to you. If you feel
that you are a serious and earnest worker and you want to work for LINEN FABRICS, kindly send meyour names, address and phone number via email. Forfurther information, please contact



MR. ROBINS
EMPLOYMENT CO-ORDINATOR
(LINEN FABRICS)


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