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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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:
  • "money order " (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. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
  • "cheques " (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. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• 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.
• MoneyGram money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. Along with Western Union it is a preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • jcheng67@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jcheng67@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:09:33 -0400
Subject: JOB OFFER.

Wanlida Textile Company Ltd
No.6 Third District Nanshan Road
Shengze, Wujiang City
Jiangsu Province, China

www.wj-wanlidasilk.com

ATTN: SOLICITING FOR A REP. IN YOUR COUNTRY

It is my pleasure to write you in respect of our Company Wanlida
Textile
Co., Ltd. with address as above. We are experts in the sale of Textile
materials. We export into Canada/America and parts of Europe. We got
your
email from a Business Directory.
We were recently given a two-year contract to supply our product to
Canada/America and Europe trade zones. In our just concluded Annual
General Meeting (AGM), we decided to search for a representative who
can
help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in Europe and
America as well as making payments through the representative as our
payment officer.
As the personnel officer of this multinational company, I hereby relate
with you because of the communication problem faced by most of our
Board
Members, since many of them cannot read, speak or write English
language
except Chinese, which is the official language. In view of this you are
expected to relate directly with me as the company representative since
I
decided to contact you and give them frequent update about our
activities.
Most of our customers have problem in making payment to us, as we do
not
run foreign accounts.
About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified
Cheques
and Money order or bank transfers 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 Payments 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 MoneyGram, Western Union Money Transfer or our company
account.
See www.westernunion.com and www.moneygram.com for details.

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 month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD. So
you may calculate your income. For example 18 transactions on 3500.00
USD
gives you 4410.00 USD. Plus your basic monthly salary of 1000.00 USD,
Total: 5410.00 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 outfits.
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 other
jobs
as it will not affect your job, you'll get good income and regular job.
So
if you are interested, your quick response to the email below would be
appreciated. You are to reply to the company's public relation officer
email address :

Please if you are interested forward to us.
Your full name.......................
Phone number.........................
Fax number...........................
Present occupation....................
full contact address........
Age: / Sex:

Thanks for your time.
Kindly reply your response to the company public relation officer below

Name: Mr Juan Cheng
Email: jcheng67@yahoo.com

Anti-fraud resources:

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