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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mystery Shopper <r.biahou@domaorganisations.com>
Reply-To: chenmartin86@kimo.com
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:17:59 -0500
Subject: Mystery Shopper Position

Mystery Shopper Position

Customer Evaluator is a valuable customer service tool that has gained
widespread acceptance in the retail, financial services and restaurant
industries, and proves highly valuable to companies that uses it to
gain customer experience metrics. You will be evaluating the
efficiency of a prominent money transfer services preferably western
union or money gram outlet in your neighborhood as regards sending and
receiving money transfers. locate one outlet you would like to
evaluate, make sure the store or outlet you choose are close to your
area as much as possible, you will have to email the name and address
of the location to us. Please note that you are to act cool,calm and
confident through out the period which you will be carrying out your
survey at the store, in order not to arouse any suspicion. You would
make use of their service by sending us a money transfer via their
outlet with the funds we would provide for you.

You will write a report about the customer services, you will send
your report back to us via Email, you will have to use the following
pointers to prepare your report:

1) How long it took you to get services. 2) Ambiance/Outlook of the
Shop/Outlet3) Apperance of the attendant 4) Customer service
professionalism 5) Reaction of personnel under pressure 6) Information
that you think would be helpful 7) Your comments and impressions.

The pay is $300 weekly on Part-time basis, you only work once or twice
in a week. Payments will be mailed out to you per task, which you will
expend in carrying out all that will be required of you including your
Compensation and Transportation fee. All Other Instructions will be
sent out to you as soon as Evaluation commences

Kindly provide the below information for assessment and registration
if you are interested.

Full Name
Address (Not P.O.Box )
City
State
Zip-Code
Phone Number
Present occupation
Age and Sex :
Email:

Thank you
Survey Team
psgroup

Graham.

pls reply back to this mail address; grahampogson20091@gmail.com

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