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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Madjid Khatibzadeh" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <madjid.khatibzadeh3@live.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 23:09:12 +0100
Subject: WORK FOR US

Attn:


PT Bitratex Industries, which has a Standardized office here in Indonesia . www.bitratex.com
We have reached big sales volume of Garment Materials in Asia & Africa and now
are trying to penetrate the Europe,USA & Canada. Quite soon we will open
representative offices or authorized sales centers in the Europe,USA/Canada
therefore we are currently looking for people who will assist us in
establishing a new distribution network there.
The fact is that despite the Europe/USA/Canada market is new to us we already have
regular clients since our products speak for itself.

We export our products to several continents in the world. In Europe, we have customers in Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. In Asia, there are several customers in Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the local market of Indonesia. Also, we deliver goods to South America, for example to Puerto Rico, Panama and Peru. In addition to that, there are customers in Australia and New Zealand.
The goods are usually shipped in containers over sea. On request, we also ship the goods by airplane if a customer prefers a fast delivery.


WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FOR US:

We have some problem collecting our payments from our USA,Canada & Europe clients.
The international money transfer tax for legal entities (companies) in USA is
25%, whereas for the individual it is only 7%.There is no sense for us to work
this way, while tax for international money transfer made by a private
individual is 7% .That is why we need you .

We need agents to monitor the distribution of our products and receive payment
for our products (in Money Orders or Checks or Credit card) from our clients in the USA/Canada/Europe
and to send the money to us via Western Union Money transfer or Money Gram
international money transfer. This way, we will save money because of tax
decreasing.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

1. Receive payment from our Clients.........
2. Cash Payments at your Bank or Exchange Rate Offices............
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage or pay on Payment processed.
4. Forward balance after deduction of the 10% of any amount received / pay to
any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment.

HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN ?

* 10% from each operation. For instance: you receive $8000 via Checks or money
orders on our behalf. You will cash the money and keep $800 (10% from $8000)
for yourself; at the beginning your commission will equal 10%, though later it
will increase up to 15% as you can earn up to $80,000-$150,000 annually from
us.

ADVANTAGES

You don't have to go out as you will work as an independent contractor right
from your home or office. Your job is absolutely legal. You can earn up to
$10,000-$20,000 monthly depending on time you will spend for this job. You do
not need any capital to start. You can do the work easily without leaving or
affecting your present Job. The employees who make efforts and work hard have a
strong possibility to become managers.
Anyway our employees never leave us.

MAIN REQUIREMENTS

* 18 years and above.................
* Legally capable................
* Responsible.......................

Interested Persons/Applicant is required to forward the following Information
Below to our consulting agent via email :

Name: ......................................
Address Line 1: ......................................
Address Line 2: ......................................
City: ......................................
State: ......................................
Zip: ......................................
Country....................................
Phone: ......................................
Occupation: ......................................
Age: .......................................
Marital Status:......................................


You will be contacted by a staff of the company within 48hrs on your response
of interest for the Job Position and you will be informed on when you will
receive the first set of Payments from our customers or when their will be a
shipment to a client in your location .


PT Bitratex Industries
Jl Brigjen S Sudiarto KM 11
PO Box 1190
Semarang 50193, Indonesia

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