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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: "Mr. Harvey Smyth" <harveysmyth43@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:35:30 +0900
Subject: JOB OPPORTUNITY.

Holou Trade Co., Ltd
United Kingdom:
117Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ


China Address:
Address: 16/G, Development Centre,No. 3 Linjiang Road,
Zhujiang New City
Guangzhou Guangdong P.R.China 510623


Attention:

We are into Manufacturing of Fabrics, Textiles and Furniture Wares
with numerous customers home and abroad. We produce various clothing
materials, batiks, assorted fabrics and traditional costume.

We need a honest representative from your country who will be in
charge of all our payments from our clients/customers, because most of
our customers pay us through Certified checks which are not negotiable
here in China. This brought to our quest to employ a credible and
trustworthy person as our representative to handle our payments. We
have lots of payments made from our clients sitting in our accounting
department in china. In order to maintain our long lasted relationship
with our customers we have employed some workers in the past but they
are not enough since we are growing rapidly. This would not affect
your present job, but will serve as another stream of income to your
good self.

As our Representative in your country, your tasks are;

1. Receive payment from Customers

2. Cash it at any cashing point or at your banks and you will deduct
10% which will be your percentage/pay on each Payment processed.

3. Forward the balance after deduction of (percentage/pay) to any of
our offices you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to
be forwarded by Western Union Money Transfer/Money Gram).

Note: As a representative of our company; you will be entitled to 10%
of any amount you receive from customers on behalf of the company as
payments for outstanding debts or goods that they want to buy.

This work takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free
time doing another work, but this opportunity is very challenging and
you should understand it. We are looking for a worker who is satisfied
with our requirements and will be an earnest assistant. We are glad to
offer this job position to you. We request you to send your
information listed below ASAP, so we can forward it to our clients.

Required Information:

FULL NAMES,
STREET ADDRESS NO:
CITY:
ZIP CODE:
COUNTRY:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
HOME PHONE:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:


Regards,
H.R.M.
Mr. Mr. Harvey Smyth
Email: harveysmyth43@yahoo.com



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