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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
• 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.
  • peterstewartt11@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Avonde-Dogs Home Ltd. <avonde-dogshome@avonde.com>
Reply-To: peterstewartt11@myway.com
Date: 6 Sep 2008 14:20:29 +0200
Subject: Online Job Opportunity

Content-Type: text/plain

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Dear Sir/Mar,



Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly? We are glad to offer you for a job position in our organization Avonde-Dogs Home Ltd. based United Kingdom. We need someone to work for the company as a

Representative/Book keeper in the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA. You don't need to have an office and this certainly won't be any source of diturbance to your daily activities.

Your tasks are:



1. Receive payment from Customers and co-ordinate payments.

2. Receiving and re-mailing of official letters.

3. Cashing or processing of Payment at your Bank.

4. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed

5. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send funds to through Money transfers.



This takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.

For example you got $3000.00, you take your

income/benefit: $250.00 Send to us: $2740.00,

First month you will have 15-20 transactions on

$3000.00-$6000.00 so you may calculate your income.

For example 18 transactions on $3500.00 gives

you the total of $4410.00



Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank or other Cashing Services, deduct your benefit and forward the balance to the company. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant and we understand it is an unusual and incredible job offer. The job offer is legitimate and called Business Receiving Agent/Management of Account

Receivables.

We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you are a serious and honest worker and you want to work for Avonde-Dogs Home Ltd,

kindly email us the following information about you:

Your full name, sex, detailed address and telephone number(s)

Your Urgent reply is needed so that we decide on giving you the job and can have our American clients forward you the payments.

PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLIES TO MANAGEMENT peterstewartt11@myway.com





Regards,

Peter O.Stewartt,

General Manager.



Avonde-Dogs Home Ltd.

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