419 scam: "Frank Nice" <franknice82@yahoo.com> Customer Service Position

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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:

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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Frank Nice" <franknice82@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: franknice828@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:22:57 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Customer Service Position

I am Frank Nice, Recruitment Specialist with Vex Corp Incorporated. On
behalf of the company, I'm offering you a customer service evaluator
position.

Vex Corp Inc is solely responsible for hiring Customer Service Evaluators
to conduct excellent Customer Service Surveys. Our clients are companies
that have a network of Branches across America. Our Notable clients
include:

McDonalds
Starbucks
Dunkin' Donuts
Chase Financial
Victoria's Secret
Dell America

Your position with our company is a work-from-home, part time position.
You will conduct surveys at any of our client's retail outlet ASSIGNED to
you. You will be patronizing their businesses and conducting a survey at
the same time to evaluate the Sales Attendant.

You will receive $200 on each survey you conduct at any time for any of
our clients, and with the number of clients we currently work with, you
could be conducting as much as 5-10 surveys weekly, which will earn you
between $1000-$2000 weekly, meaning you'll earn about $52,000/year, part
time.

No commitment is involved, no Sign Up fees.

Your confirmation, Along with your Full Name, Mailing Address not
(POBOX),current occupation and phone number will be required to draw up a
contract. Once I have this Info,we'll move swiftly and introduce you to
our clients.

Frank Nice
Vex Corp Incorporated

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