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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: "DFS FURNITURE LTD U.K" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dfs.furniture@admin.in.th>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:49:31 -0000
Subject: We are glad to offer you a job position in our company

DFS FURNITURE LTD U.K
4 Chiswell Street,
London, UK EC1Y 4UP
United Kingdom.
dfs.furniture@admin.in.th

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are glad to offer you a job position in our company
We presently need new people to occupy the position of Processing Manager, able to receive and send payments

between our partners clients and our company. This part-time job does not require any special skills. You do not have to

spend much time to earn sufficient money to be added to your main salary. Every payment will be accompanied by

detailed instruction. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the United States/ Canada. You don’t need to

have an Office and this certainly won’t disturb any form of work you have at the moment.

*** REQUIREMENTS ***
- Honesty, Responsibility and Promptness in operations;
- PC with Internet and e-mail access;
- Postal or Mailing address.
YOUR ROLES ARE:

1. Receiving payment from our Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10%, which will be your percentage
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be instructed to send payment to.

Instructions on how to remit the company’s balance 90% will be given to you. We understand it is an unusual and

incredible job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You’ll have a lot of free time doing your permanent job,

but this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our

requirements and will be a Co-operative assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you if you are capable and fit

to carry out the tasks as stated above, and you are willing to work occupy this position with DFS FURNITURE LTD U.K.

Please fill out the information requested below to this Email address: dfs.furniture@admin.in.th

NAME IN FULL : .........
COMPANY NAME: .........
Reply to this email ID (dfs.furniture@admin.in.th)
FULL ADDRESS: .......
STATE: ............
ZIP CODE: ........
COUNTRY: .......
MOBILE: .......
HOME TEL: .....…
FAX: ..........
EMAIL ADDRESS: ........
WEBSITE: ..............
OCCUPATION: ...........
BANK NAME : .......
AGE: ............
A COPY OF YOUR ID :..........
A COPY 4x4 SIZED PHOTOGRAPH:.........

Hope to have informed you well and do feel free to call me if you require further clarification
or seek my urgent attention.Do have a nice day ahead.

Yours sincerely,
MR. William Anderson
DFS FURNITURE LTD U.K
Tel : 004484-4500-6771
Fax: 004487-1974-6093
Website: http://www.dfs-online.co.uk

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