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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: "Mr.Elton Cole" <ietafrica@safe-mail.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: iteafrica@safe-mail.net
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:12:01 +0100
Subject: ONLINE JOB AWAITS YOU!!!




ITE Africa Trading Company,
10985 Grand Dakar Road,
Dakar,
Dp6 6RG, SENEGAL
Email:iteafrica@safe-mail.net

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,ITE Africa Fabric Trading Company We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in the USA and UK. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA and UK. You dont need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world's leading suppliers. Order processing,production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network.

The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD.
This job takes only 1-3 hours per day.

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 ITE Africa Trading Company.
kindly send me your name ,address and phone number via email:iteafrica@safe-mail.net

You Should Reply to Our Email and 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 we would be expecting to hear from you.

Warmest Regards,


Mr.Elton Cole ,
Chief Sales and Payment Executive,
ITE Group Plc.
Dakar Senegal.
Email:iteafrica@safe-mail.net


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