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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "deduct your 10%" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • napier_browncompany@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM NAPIER COMPANY LTD" <napier_browncompany@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:08 +0400
Subject: ONLINE EMPLOYMENT FROM NAPIER COMPANY LTD




Napier Brown & Co.Ltd.
ADD: Ripley Drive, Normanton Industrial Estate, Normanton,
West Yorkshire, WF6 1RY, LONDON.
Website: http://www.napierbrown.co.uk/
E MAIL :napier_browncompany@yahoo.com

Hello Sir

COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON!!! Would u like to work online from home and get paid weekly? Needs a book-keeper (financial representative) in the United States of America, Europes and Asia , so I want to know if u will be interested to work online from home and get paid without leaving or affecting your present job. I am Napier Brown I run a sugar company here in Uk and we need some new deligates to work for the company as a financial representative/book keeper.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FOR US?
My Company needs a financial representative in your present Location who will serve as our Representative Agent in processing any of our funds made out to us by our customers in your Location and clients Payment through any method, due to frequent request and Large supplies of product we do not meet our demand due to this failure so that is why we seek your time and assistance in your present Location.
JOB DESCRIPTION?
1. Receive payment from Clients in your Location
2. Cash Payments at your Location Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4. Forward balance afar deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to (Payment is to forwarded in any enviconvinience means which the Compnay will prefer).
HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN?
10% from each operation in your Location! For instance: if you receive 70000 USD on our Company behalf. You will cash the money and keep $7000 (10% from $7000) for yourself! At the beginning your commission will equal 10%, though later it will increase up to 12%, depending on your hard work and effort put in please at your Location!
DO YOU NEED TO PAY FOR THE TRANSFER FEE FROM YOUR PERCENTAGE?
No you do not have to, all necessary transfer fees should be deducted
>From the balance after you must have cashed and deduct your 10% of total
Money received while finish cashing.

FULL NAME:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
PERSONAL CELL PHONE NUMBER:
SEX:
AGE:
PRESENT JOB, IF EMPLOYED:
A SCANNED ID OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION:
And please know that everything is absolutely Legal.

I AM WAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE
REGARDS,
Mr Napier Brown.
Web: www.napierbrown.co.uk

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