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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 orders " (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.
• 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.
  • malcom_u_0045@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: malcom Duncan <malcom_012301111@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <malcom_u_0045@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:02:25 -0500
Subject: GET PAID WEEKLY ( WORK AT HOME )



Dear Sir/Ma, Would you like to work online from Home/temporarily and get paid weekly?We are glad to offer you a job position at our company, malcom.Duncan & CO TEXTILES INTERNATIONAL, We need someone to work for the company as a representative/book keeper all over the World.This is in view of our not having an office presently in your location.You do not need to have an office and this certainly would not 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 integratedthrough a company-wide computer network.* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 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 to distribute our products. It is not easy to start a business in a new market (being the Worldwide).There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion.We have decided to deliver the products upfront, it's very risky but it should push up sales by 25 percent. Thus we need to get payments for our products as soon as possible.Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in your country without first registering the company name.Presently with the amount of orders we have, we cannot put them on hold.For fear of loosing the customers outrightly.Secondly we cannot cash these payments from your country soon enough,as international cheques take about 14 working days for cash to be made available.We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays.Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process.You are not involved in any sales.We make direct contact for sales of our products.Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX/UPS). The customer receives and checks the products, After this has been done,About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through certified cheques and money orders based on the amount involved.We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem. Your tasks are:1. Receive payment from Customers2. Cash Payment at your Bank3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on payment processed4. Forward balance after deduction to any of the offices you will be contacted tosend payment to.(Payment is to be forwaded by Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gramm money Transfer). Local money transfers take barely hours, so it will give us a possibility of hours to get customer's payment almost immediately. For example on $3000,you take your income $300 andforward the balance $2700.In the first month you will have 15-20 transactions on $3000-$4000,so you may calculate your income. After establishing a close co-operation with us, you would be able to operate with larger orders and you will be able to earn more.Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank or .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.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 malcom & CO TEXTILES INTERNATIONAL,kindly send me your full name,address and phone number after which you do, a form will be sent to you to fill out and after which you will be contacted by a staff of the company on phone, after which you would be ready to start working.This is legal business and i will not want you to take this opportunity grantedNOTE: kindly send your responses and correspondences to (malcom_u_0045@yahoo.com)Best regards,Employment Placement Manager,malcom.Duncan
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