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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: "Dr Micheal Reid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jtbraj@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:28:52 +0100
Subject: Hello

Dear Sir/Madam,



Would you like to work online from the comfort of your home and get paid
weekly ? We are glad to offer you a job position in our company. Micheal Reid's
Pharmaceuticals. We need someone who will act as the companies
representative/payroll officer 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
wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.

Reid's Pharmaceuticals sell and ship prescription and non prescription drugs
to all part of the world to customers. Your job will be to accept payments from
our customers buying drugs from us and this payments come inform of Us Certified
Bank checks which are cash able instantly and all you have to do is to deduct
%15 from the amount and send the remaining balance to any of our branches in
Madrid-Spain, London-England, Cape Town-South Africa and Lagos-Nigeria as
directed by me through the popular Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram. ,
While our job will be to ship products to the customers.



Your Task:
We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem by
coordinate payments from customers in the United States who have bought this
Pharmaceutical Products.


Your tasks are;

1. Receive Certified Bank Checks from customers.

2. Receive Electronic Transfer TO ANY CREDIT CARD ACCOUNT ONLY

3. Deduct 15% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.

4. Forward balance after deduction of your percentage/pay to any of our
branches in Madrid-Spain, Capetown-South Africa and Lagos-Nigeria.(Payment is to
forwarded either by Money Gram, www.moneygram.com or Western Union Money
Transfer, www.westernunion.com )Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it
will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.


EXAMPLE: When you receive $5000. You will deduct %15 which is $750 and send
$4250 to us. E.g $750 * 10 ( Ten Transaction Each Month) = $7500 Monthly Income
for you. If you are interested in working for us Email us with the following.
But only serious applicants are needed.



REQUIREMENTS


Full Name :-

Address, City, State & Zip Code :-

Age :-

Sex :-

Present Occupation :-

Contact Phone number :-


NOTE: Due to personal checks that our Customers do send and on most cases
those checks are now easy to cash and that was why we decide to know if you will
be able to receive payment Electronically that would be a better way than going
to the Bank to deposit a check for 10days.
After establishing close contact with us and you have processed your first
payment you will be able to receive payments for large orders and your
percentage will rise. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot
of free time doing another job, you'll get good income and regular job. But this
job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for
the worker who satisfies our requirements.
But the problem i have is trust,But i have my way of getting any one that
gets away with our money,i mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involved.


Director Mr and Mrs Reid's Pharmaceuticals

Dr Micheal Reid

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