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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: "David.S. Lincoln" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <david55378@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:49:00 -0800
Subject: Job Offer(Unspeakable Opportunity)

Sir/madam,

We have a job opening for the position of Accounts receivable officer.
Would you like to work from your home and get paid weekly? We are
offering this position to all interested applicants. Please carefully
read through.

This employment opportunity is targeted at providing part/full time
job seekers, and also people who would like to working from home, and
get paid weekly.


The Lincoln Electric Company is a well established provider of
Electrical service solutions Established in 1895, Lincoln procures,
warehouses, and any kind of electrical and data product, component, or
related service to its customers. It stocks and sells hundreds of
thousands of items from thousands of manufacturers.


We deliver high quality precision products to some of the largest and
best known companies in far back Asia, Europe, the Regions of America
and Rest of The world. You will find our high quality Electronics in
the BEST products on the market today.

We serve the entire Europe, United States/Canada and a growing export
market, particularly in the supplies of Electrical and welding
products, robotic welding systems, plasma and cutting equipment.


Your primary task as a representative of the company would be to
coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment
process. You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received
and sorted we deliver the product to the customer, after this has been
done, the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we
make our clients prepay for orders or items they order for.

About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified
Checks, Money Orders or traveler check drawn from the United
States/Canada/Europe based on the amount involved. We then decided to
throw open this new contract -to-hire job position as a way of giving
back to the Nation in form of extra job creation and as a way of
corporate social responsibility to the populace and ultimately to fill
up this position.


Your First Primary task (Collection of Payments):

1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Local Bank.
3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be contacted to send payment to.

If you are interested forward us below information

YOU WOULD BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
====================================================

HAVE YOU HANDLED LARGE FUNDS, HOW MUCH AND HOW SUCCESSFULLY?

Your Full Name.............
Address Line 1............
City......................
State......................
Zip/Postal code........
Cell phone...................
Your Age------
Occupation--------------------
Email...................

YOUR PREFERRED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR EMAIL



Your response to this email is needed, so that we can reconfirm your
mailing/residential address details we have in our database.

We will be updating you as soon as a payment is being sent to you, and
you will be directed as to where to have the remaining 90% of the
money sent to, after the deduction of your 10% wage on any payments
received and processed by you.


A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this email will be appreciated.


Thanks for Your Total Understanding.

The Lincoln Electric Company
David.S. Lincoln
President / CEO
ADD :No.189 Tianhe Bei Road,
Guangzhou, China.
Post Code: 510075.

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