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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: "Bill Smith" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <billsmith_01@live.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 02:49:49 -0800
Subject: JOB OFFER

L&N TEXTILE
& FABRICS LIMITED
RM 604 EAST OCEAN CENTRE
26 VILLE ROAD LONDON


My name is Bill Smith, Marketing officer for L&N TEXTILES AND FABRICS
LTD. I want to employ
you as our agent if you're still looking for job. We have been selling
our products for the past few years and we're lately facing serious
difficulties when it comes to selling our products to Americans because
they are always offering to pay with U.S MONEY ORDER/CHECKS,
which is difficult for us to cash here. We are looking for
representatives in the states who will be working for us as a part-time worker and
be willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which wouldn’t affect your
present state of work.

We need someone who would be helping in receiving payments from our
clients in the States. An agent who is responsible and reliable that will
be handling the payment aspect. The payment will be addressed and sent
to you and all you need do is to get it cashed, deduct your percentage
and wire the balance back to any of our accountants/lawyers in our
regional warehouses. The
problem we have is getting someone that is really capable and
trustworthy as though we surely have our way of getting anyone that tries to get
away with our money. The FBI will surely be interested and get
involved.

This offer is not going to cost you any amount because all you need to
do is to receive payments which will be sent to you via delivery
courier from our clients, which would come in form of a money order/check get
it cashed and send the cash to our accountants/lawyers via
MONEYGRAM, WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER and required charges for all
transfer should be deducted from the money.

If you're interested, kindly get back to me ASAP with the information
below. Please note any transaction carried out by our staff on behalf
of this organization will be insured against risk.

FULL NAME:
OCCUPATION:
POSITON HELD:
ADDRESS:
PO.BOX NOT ACCEPTED:
PHONE NUMBER:
CELL PHONE:
GENDER:
MARITALSTATUS:
AGE:
ZIPCODE:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
CITY:
WORKING EXPERIENCE:

I__________hereby accept the job as a representative of the above
mentioned company here in the United States, to receive payments on behalf
of the company. Payment received by me shall be processed, make
deduction of 10% as agreed and forward the balance payment via to any of the
company's regional warehouses that will given to me later. I shall also
inform the company a week ahead if eventually l want to discontinue this
job, so as to terminate all payments coming my way to avoid conflict.
Signed by me.+447045786207
.....................
Your faithfully,

Bill Smith

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