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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: "Boccalini Mr. Augusto" <abboccalini001@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: info@abbocaliniinterni.net
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 10:55:38 -0700
Subject: URGENT EMPLOYMENT OFFER


AB Boccalini Interni
112 Heathfield Avenue
Dover,CT16,2PA
England
http://www.abbocaliniinterni.net
Phone # :+( 44) 703-591-0053

URGENT EMPLOYMENT OFFER
Would you like to work online from home temporarily and earn constant
payment? We are glad to offer you a job position in our company, AB
Boccalini Interni. We permanently need new people to occupy the position of
Processing Manager, able to receive and send payments between our partners'
clients and our company. This part-time job does not require any special
skills. You do not have to spend much time to earn sufficient money to be
added to your main salary. Every payment will be accompanied by detailed
instruction.

This is in view of our not having an office presently in the United States/
Canada. You don't need to have an Office and this certainly won't disturb
any form of work you have at the moment. I have sold in galleries and to
private collectors from all around the world especially the U.S. We are
experts in home and office design; we export into the Canada/America and
Europe.

*** REQUIREMENTS ***
- Honesty, Responsibility and Promptness in operations:
- PC with Internet and e-mail access:
- We don't work with persons under 18:
- Postal or Mailing address.

YOUR ROLES ARE:
1. Receiving payment from our Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10%, which will be your percentage
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices
you will be instructed to send payment to.

Instructions on how to remit the company's balance 90% will be given to you.
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 your permanent
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 a
Co-operative assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you if you
are capable and fit to carry out the tasks stated above, and you want to
work for AB Boccalini Interni.

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Please contact us with below information via email below :
Full Names:
Occupation:
Phone number:
Contact Address:
State:
Zipcode:
Email:
Country:
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PLEASE CONTACT:
Mr. Augusto Boccalini.
Managing Director
Email: info@abbocaliniinterni.net<http://b11.mail.yahoo.com/ym/abbocaliniinterni.net/Compose?To=info@abbocaliniinterni.net>

You will receive necessary information in 1-48 hours.
Please consider your services as an obligation to you' this does not
require any of your financial obligations.

Thanks for your time

Kindest Regards,

Leanne Harvey.
(Public Relations Officer)

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