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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "International Surveillance Solutions Network" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bsmith79791@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:35:29 -0500
Subject: EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Dear Applicant,

Welcome to International Business Surveillance Solutions, We will like to introduce you to a program we are setting up for the upcoming Torch Awards being organized by the Bankers' Guild Torch Award program to recognize companies for fair, honest and ethical business practices. Each year four companies, from small and medium-sized enterprises to multi-national corporations are honored at a CBB-hosted event. The companies range from banks, credit unions, insurance companies, prime restaurants and other small and medium business ventures. Our major targets are banks across the USA, UK and Canada. We tend to vigorously and confidentially evaluate their services, ethics and consumer relationship.

We would be looking to award these business organizations from the following angles:

* Marketplace Excellence - presented to a business in recognition of their superior commitment to exceptional standards that benefit their consumers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and surrounding communities.

* Advancing Marketplace Trust – presented to a business in recognition of an action, program, or containment activities that significantly and positively contribute to advancing trust in the marketplace.

* Consumer Leadership – presented to an individual who has significantly advanced marketplace trust through consumer advocacy, protection or education, through a specific action or lifetime achievement.


We will want you to act as a confidential evaluation reporter for banks and credit unions around you. You will be filing reports to us on every evaluation undergone by you. Details will be giving to you on what information you need to bring back to us.

The job is not field specific, that is, anyone from any field/profession can fit in. It is also somehow Part Time in nature.


Your identity would be kept in confidence as we do not give Third Parties your information and you are entitled to $200-$300 for every evaluation report you carry out, with weekly transport allowance and funds for your evaluation will be provided before the survey is carried out.

Your Information will have to be stored in our database system as one of our numerous survey agents, and you would be covering your area, and some close cities near you, you would find this job very interesting and rewarding. An acceptance e-mail would be sent to you, we have evaluation activities around your city that is why we need your services. I will have to get you the full details of the services which you would have to partake in, but I will need to know what your schedule so as to know what days to fix you in. As soon as you are accepted for this job, you would be given full details of the activities you have to carry out, and you would be told what to keep for records, and your payment information would be included in the mail.


If you are interested, Please reply this e mail with the following information:-

Full Name:
Full Mailing Address (No P.O.Box please):
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Cell Phone:
Home Phone:
Gender:
D.O.B:
Marital Status:
Best Times to Call:
Availability Times from Monday to Saturday
Present Job Status/Position:
Email:


Interest should be signified by prompt response to this email: bsmith79791@gmail.com


Best Regards,
Brian Smith
Affiliate Participant
International Surveillance Solutions Network



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