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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: WINGAS PETROLEUM PLC <lduffell@uoguelph.ca>
Reply-To: WINGAS PLC <wingaspet@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:50:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: WINGAS PETROLEUM PLC WORK FROM HOME BENEFIT...(READ).








http://www.wingas.de/index.php?&L=1


PART TIME JOB OFFER



Before I proceed I must first apologize for this unsolicited mail to you, My name is Dr Rainer Seele (Head of Public Relations, WINGAS Companies). . WINGAS was formed in 1993 as a strategic alliance between the world largest producer of natural gas, Gazprom, and Winter shall, the wholly owned subsidiary of Germany largest industrial gas consumer, BASF AG (BASF).



Our company is presently in search of trustworthy representatives
in the United States that will aid as a link between us and our customers
in the USA.



JOB DESCRIPTION

This project has been developed in a way not to affect your present job nor bring you any form of stress but in order to help take care of those extra costs

it came to my knowledge that there are a lot of lapses in handling funds that come in from the states which come in forms of cashiers checks, company checks and money orders and are not readily cashable outside the United States and some sent mails that do not delivered due to lapses in courier services, So we need someone in the States to work as our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our various clients which come in on a weekly, monthly and annual basis. This is why we decided to get a representative over in the states to help us pick up our payments at your contact address you shall be providing us, in order to process our payment from our clients.

So I talked to the company accountant, and it was a good idea to hire someone trustworthy who could receive the FUNDS in the United States and this happens to be a good idea.

ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS RECEIVE THESE PAYMENTS FROM OUR
CLIENTS IN THE STATES GET IT CASHED AT YOUR BANK, THEN
DEDUCT YOUR PERCENTAGE (10% OF EACH PAYMENT) AND FORWARD THE BALANCE
OVER TO THE COMPANY'S FINANCE DIRECTOR VIA WESTERN UNION.

Our payments will be issued out in your name as we would inform our
Clients to do.



You will be required to notify us at least 14 days early, if eventually you
want to discontinue working with us, so as to terminate all payments that have
been approved to be sent to you, in order to avoid any conflicts.



BENEFIT IS AS FOLLOWS:-
* The average monthly income is about $4000....
* No form of investments from you....
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day....
* You do not pay any form of taxes....



REQUIREMENTS :
* Full Name.
* Residential Address (In Full, Not P.O.BOX).
* Zip Code
* City
* State
* Contact Phone number(s).
* Email.
* Age.
* Occupation.
* Bank Name (Only).





Wingas and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for

a fee to process or consider your application for a career with wingas. Anyone

who demands such a fee is not an authorized wingas representative and you are

strongly advised to refuse any such demand. if you are interested in applying for

the job then you can contact our agent via email with the requirements to start receiving payments from our customers and start cashing right away.



If interested in this job, do email me back at the email shown below:

WINGASPET@AOL.COM


Then we'll make the concluding arrangements on how you'll get started.
Just to let you know that English will be our official communicating language. Hope to hear from you soon.

Warmest Regards,


Rainer seele.
Head of Public Relations


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