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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: DONALD DUKE <donald.duke2001@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:44:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: STORE/SALES MANAGER NEEDED


Attention,

We are Portuguese family working and living in London United Kingdom. My name is DONALD DUKE.

I have a wife and two sons.
who are Three and Eleven years old respectively.

I work as a project manager with DUKES & DON TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION CENTER, my wife works with British Airways UK.

We have received your contact details from naukri.com, We are
contacting
you today for us to discuss the possibility of hiring you as Sales
Manager/store Manager to our newly opened FAMILY ELECTRONICS SALES
COMPANY ( DUKES & DON TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION CENTER ).

We have agreed to pay you 1,500 Great British Pounds weekly for this service.

You will need to be in this service for a minimum period of 2YEAR.

You will have accommodation with us as well. Contract can be renewable
base on
negotiation.

Should  you wish to take up this job post, You shall be required to
perform the below stated duties,
1. Organize all activities & assign jobs accordingly for staff.

2. Setup layout & space management; work organization chart.

3. Manage stock control: the self-assured receipt, storage, retrieval
and timely delivery of goods; shipment loading & transferring;
document recording and data entry into system.

4. Planning, Organizing and Controlling of sales’ over-all operations.

5. Constantly plan out all sale resources and activities in
relation to company objectives and set targets.

6. Make plans to develop staffs of sales by internal/on-job training.

7. Follow up & control daily absence and over time.

8. Ensure that workplace’s health and safety requirements are met and
take responsibility for the security of the building and stock.

9.
Maintaining sales and surrounding area.

10. Issue Inventory report, IN/OUT status report, dead stock report,
goods age report, consumption report, manpower status report to
Logistics Manager.

We wish to inform you that we have your full details which we received
from naukri.com in our database, we advised that you send us your full
name and mobile number to enable us confirm same with the one in your
CV/RESUME?

Your Name In Full; ........................

Your Home/Mobile Number; ...........................

Nationality; ...........................

Country of Resident; ...........................


Your travel materials shall be arranged as a matter of urgency.

NOTE:We will incur all your traveling expenses.


Please email me back at donald.duke2001@gmail.com should you wish to take up this job post for further proceedings.

Sincerely
DONALD DUKE


FOR   DUKES & DON TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION CENTER



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