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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: Itochu Corporation Company<info@admin.com>
Reply-To: itochu_corporation02@yahoo.cn
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:39:07 +0800
Subject: Payment Managers Wanted for 2011/2012

Itochu Corporation Export Company
Payment Managers Wanted for 2011/2012
Job Processing Unit

Dear Candidates,

We have a part time job offer available for you that will not disturb your
present occupation. We are an International trading company with our
corporate headquarters based in Japan Since establishment in 1974 we have
done our business in Mainland Asia, U.K ,and U.S, in 1990 we extended our
Region of supplies due to continuous demands to Northern America and
Europe at large. We deal on raw factory materials and finished personal
care products including live long products.

Due to our competent records for treating customer demands and supplies,
customers have referred us to other possible clients and we have been
receiving orders from Northern America, Europe and Australia and now we
are seeking for noble and trusted representative client from CANADA AND
USA.

As the CEO of this multinational company hereby relate with you because of
the communication problem faced by most of our Board Members, since many
of them cannot read, speak or write English language except Japanese and
Chinese which is our official language. In view of
this you are expected to relate directly with me as the company
representative since i decided to contact you and give them frequent
update about our activities. Most of our customers have problem in making
payment to us as we do not run foreign accounts.

Most of our customers pay out in check and we do not have an account in
your country that will clear this money. Again, there is the problem of
language. This has posed a lot of problems as we have engaged the
services of interpreters which have proved not so encouraging as we have
lost a lot of money to some bad characters in our employ.

Your tasks are Receive payment from Customers Cash Payments at your Bank
Deduct 5% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed Forward
balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will
be contacted to send payment to.

If you are interested in this business transaction, forward to us the
Information below:


(I)Your Full Names;
(II)Mailing address,
(III)Phone Number:
(IV)Present job; (And Position Held )
(V)Age:
(VI)Mode of Identification (If Any)
(VII)Bank name;(If Any)

All correspondence email should be email to the payment Job Processing
Unit. Time: 24 Hours daily by e-mail using the contact information as set
below and we'll respond to you within 24 Hours with more Informational
about our business and your duty as a payment officer. Also note that the
president of this company Mr Kobayashi-san will send you a letter of
approval and also the contact details to the customer so that you can
contact him regarding his payment so please after you have sent your
details please check your email with 24 hours the president of this
company will attend to you immediately.

Note: Payment can also me wire into you Line of Credit Account if any:

Further clarification and assistance you can contact our UK Job Processing
Unit Centre for easy communication due to time difference :
0044-7523-5347-46.

Please send the above details to our Personnel Manager via The below Details:
Name: Mr. Wen Chine,
Email: itochu_corporation01@yahoo.com.cn

Best Regards,
Mr. Uichiro Niwa
(Job Processing Unit)

Payments Instructor For
Itochu Corporation Export Company.

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