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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: DR SOLOMON KIRBY <drsolomonkirby@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:01:28 +0100
Subject: JOB OFFER FOR YOU


Dear sir/madamme :


We are pleased to offer you part time, non time consuming employment at
Adventure Works as our North American payment processor and collector.

We feel that your skills and background will be a valuable assets to our
team.The remuneration for the position is commision based. Your immediate
supervisor will be Liza Albert,the international business relations
department manager. Your starting date will be immediately.

The starting salary is

$2,000 mobilisation fee which you will subtract, including your 10%
commission from the first payment that will be wire transferred into your
account (note, to be elligible, you must possess a registered businees and
a company account with a US bank in the name of the business).
10% commision, on any payment which you receive from our north american
customers on behalf of our company,(payments are sent in as often as twice
or more per week, and could be as much as $50,000 at a time)

There are numerous benefits that working with our company offers. You will
have a flexible time arrangement (which means your time is yours to do
whatever you wish, all you do for us is, when a payment is sent to you, we
will notify you ,and you will immediately go to your bank and with draw the
payment from your company account and remit the funds to us through the
channel which we inform you about, that is after deducting your 10%
commission).

If you choose to accept this offer, please send the following information
below to your supervisor Mrs Liza Albert with her contact telephone number
as follows:+1(240)487-9951

The following below information is required:

FULL NAME
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER (CELLPHONE & LANDLINE)
COMPANY NAME
COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER
COMPANY OFFICE ADDRESS & TELEPHONE NUMBER
TYPE OF BUSINESS DONE BY COMPANY

We look forward to welcoming you as a new partner at Adventure Works.

Sincerely,
Dr. Solomon Kirby
Copyright © 1998 by Adventure Works

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