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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Stanley McCarthy" <j17ysn@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: <mstanley00@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:18:37 -0800
Subject: Accounts Receivable Position

STANLEY FURNITURE COMPANY.


www.stanleyfurniture.com



Dear Sir/Madam,


We have a job opening for the position of Accounts Receivable Position.
Would you like to work from your home and get paid weekly?

We are offering this position to all interested applicants.

STANLEY FURNITURE COMPANY is a well established Manufacturing
Firm, that delivers high quality precision furniture products to some of the
largest and best known companies in far back Asia ,the Regions Of America
and Rest of The world for a long time. You will find our high quality furniture
in the BEST products on the market today.

We serve the entire United States, Canada and a growing export market, particularly
in the supplies of selected products. Superior products including Sofas &
Loveseats, Bedding Ensembles, Chairs & Ottomans.

Your primary task for now, as a Representative of the Company is to coordinate
payments from our customers and help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales.
Once orders are received and sorted, then our clients prepay for orders or items they order
for and we deliver the product to the customer.

As a private transaction, this program is Legitimate from the United States and Canadian Securities Act
of 1933, the United States and Canadian Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
United States and Canadian Investment Company Act of 1940
and all other rules, regulations and amendments thereof.

About 60 percent of our customers prefer to pay via wire transfer we have still have an
outstanding 40 percent customer database who make payments through Certified Checks or
Money Orders drawn from the United States and Canadain based banks, so we have decided to open this new
Contract-to-hire job position for solving this problem.


Your First Primary task (Collection of Payments):

1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.

2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.

3. Deduct 10 % which will be your commission/salary on every payment processed.

4. Forward balance after deduction of commission/salary to any of the designated
account officers.


You will be contacted prior to sending payments to you to give you an update and
adequate information regarding each payment plus you'll have a lot of free time doing
another job / your current job, because this job is part time, you'll get good
income for your time and services.


This job is challenging and you should understand it requires dedication and
competence.
Upon receiving your details, We will considering your application and you can be
sure as we need earnest assistant till we start running our branch office in your state. Get
back to us with information below information , so that we can add your mailing
address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers for them to
send payments.


First name...................

Middle name..................

Last name....................

Address Line 1...............

Address Line 2...............

City.........................

State.........................

Zip/Postal code..............

Country ………………………

Age..........................

Marital Status...............

Nationality..................

Home phone...................

Cell phone...................


YOUR PREFFERED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR BY EMAIL.


We will be updating you as soon as the 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% pay on any payments received and processed by
you.

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

Thanks For Your Total Understanding.

Staffing and Recruiting Dept,

Stanley McCarthy.
C.E.O / President.
mstanley00@gmail.com


Stanley Furniture, Inc.
PO Box 30,
1641 Fairystone Park Highway
Stanleytown, VA 24168

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