419 scam: Amaz Electronic Inc <recruitment@dragnet.com.au> Employement!!!

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- amazelectronicinc@asia.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Amaz Electronic Inc <recruitment@dragnet.com.au>
Reply-To: <amazelectronicinc@asia.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 11:09:30 -0500
Subject: Employement!!!

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Amaz Electronic Inc
No.6 The Third District Nanshan Road,
Shengze, Wujiang City, Jiangsu
Province. China
Email: amazelectronicinc@asia.com

DEAR SIR/MADAM
My name is Mr Huang Cheng, Chief Executive Officer Amaz Electronic Inc
Electronics Company China.We have a vision of being amongst the worlds
leading marketers,due to our great innovation in marketing of
Electronic appliances around the world,we are presently expanding our
sales span to the US, Canada,Asia and Europe.

We have been facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling our
products to America/europe due to payments method as majority of our
client offers payment with with bank to bank tranfer.We are presently
working on setting up a branch in the USA/EUROPE AND ASIA that will
cater for our present lapses, but for now we are urgently in need of
Representatives in the United States of America, Canada, Asia and
Europe.

These Representatives will be working for a part time or on contract
basis. We look forward to a situation where-by Representatives will be
working in a comfortable condition, hence working from home without
affecting his/her present job if there is any at hand.

our company will be offering 10% payment per transaction for
Starters.The scope of the work is to receive funds from our clients
who
will make
payments to our nominated Representative. Please endeavour to go
throughour contract term.

If you are interested, I would appreciate you forwarding to us your
complete personal details via the email address . Your earliest
response in the affirmative would be welcome.You will be sent an e-mail
notification in less than 24 hours of your reply.

Please also let us know the best time to reach you on phone especially
as we have a different time.

Thank you for your time.

Your Sincerely,
Mr Huang Cheng
Chief Executive Officer.
Amaz Electronic Inc

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