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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: "Benson jnr" <zbsson@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: zubenson_inter@myway.com
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 02:49:38 +0000
Subject: From ibrahim osseni

Hi dear,

Please can I have your attention for a moment? Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly? Z&F PLC needs a bookkeeper in the state, so I want to know if you will like to work online from home and get paid weekly without leaving or affecting your present job? It's just that I am presently running a textile and fabrics firm I inherited from my late Dad in the UK and we need someone to work for the company as a representative/book keeper in the states and Canada.

My company produces various clothing materials, batiks, assorted fabrics and traditional costume, which we have clients we supply weekly in the states. My clients make payments for our supplies every week, which are not readily cashable outside
the US so we need someone in the states to work as our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our clients and I will pay him weekly salary.

All you need to do is receive this payments from our clients in the States get it cashed in your bank then deduct your weekly pay and forward the balance to the company down here.

So all I need is for you to forward your information’s to our clients in the states and they issue payments on your name then send it to you via mail or courier .All I will need is your full name, address and phone numbers so we can forward it to our clients and they
will start making payments to you as the company's representative in the states.

I will email you a letter of employment from our company, which you have to reply with an acceptance letter and a scanned copy of your identification attached to it.

As soon as we confirm any payment coming to you I will let you know And I will give you the information to send funds to the company.

Please forwards your reply to my personal email box:bensonjr@myway.com

Thanks,
Benson junior.



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