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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: MercadoLibre Limited <brenda@arrayengrg.com.sg>
Reply-To: <computer1212000@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:32:13 -0500
Subject: Official Request ( Make Money )

ATTN: MAKE MONEY RIGHT FROM HOME WITH AN ACCESS TO INTERNET AND BEING ACTIVE ON PHONE AT ALL TIME.


Do you have access to a computer ? Then you can get paid weekly. Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly? If yes, MercadoLibre Limited is glad to offer you a job position in our company, MercadoLibre Limited in conjuction with Ebay as part of our ongoing Multi Level Marketing Network, We seek capable individuals to work for us as our representative. You can easily make $700-$2000 or more in a week by working for us as a Sub- contractor in your geographical location, You will be incharge of sorting Paper works and handling payment on behalf of our affiliates and Small business organisations that are registered under us. Does it sounds interesting to you ? Well, It certainly for 10,000+current members who are making $700- $2,000 weekly online with this system.

Note that no form of investment is needed from you and this jobwill take only 1-3 hours of your time per week. MercadoLibre Limited is a link between small scale business organisations and their customers for now, We have upto 200 Small business Organisation and 400 individuals registered and placing their adverts with us.

Your tasks is just below:
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1. Receive/Sorting Paper works and Payments from Customers.

Note: This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. This job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking for capable, honest and open hearted individuals who satisfies our requirements and that is willing and capable of handling this job position as a sub-contractor in his or her Geographical location.

To get Started, Please provide the details below for screening to computer1212000@gmail.com

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Thanks for your Co-operation
Dennis Taylor
MercadoLibre Limited

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