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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: "Careers" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 16:10:48 -0300
Subject: Office From Home & Earn In-come ( Offer Available ) Apply Now

******** Welcome To The Hiring Center .********
Att:  Employment Ref :  QMK2015-2020-1XQM
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Hiring Department , You qualified to work from Home & Earn in-come.
Can you work as a mail dispatcher? I own a small shipping business and I tend to operate a high cost of operation and I want to cut down my expenses by employing someone in each state of USA, someone who will be getting mails in bulk and open the bulk mail and dispatch them in units to there final destinations in there respective states.
NOTE: for example, the cost of sending each mail is $34.00 by UPS Express and we want to send out 100 mails, that would be $3,400 which is to costly but we have a solution whereby, we ship the whole 100 mails in one package at the rate of $600 to you in your state and when you get it, you will open it and send the mail individually through USPS which will be $7 to $10 each and you can see the we will have a savings, $600 for bulk shipping plus $10 times 100 making $1,400, you can see we have saved $2,000, so please I need you to work for me on a part-time basis, and you will be paid $1200 every month. You will be provided with funds to dispatch the mails upfront, you will be provided with up to $800 to $3,400 as a running fund for dispatching the mails, sometimes, it may be packages of goods that you will be receiving and sometimes you may be required to pay for shipping fees out of the funds we provide to you to pay another freight forwarder when we need the service of another freight forwarder, the items y
I want to assure you that you will never use your own money for any expenses and you are not require to buy anything to begin the job, it is a straight forward job opportunity. The job will only take 4 to 5 hours of your time in a week and you can work whatever hours you want, the name of my Business is Payroll Job Movers & Associates and I am located in OH, the job is very simple once you have an address where you can accept mails and packages, and also have the time to re-mail the mails and packages through USPS sometime through some other freight forwarders, the mails will contain letters, notes, gift cards and the packages will be containing office materials and sometimes office equipments.
You will have to present an ID and you have to show some sense of sincerity as you will be entrusted with clients mails, packages and funds to utilize for re-mailing expenses, please do let me know when you are ready to start and let me know if you have all the requirements needed for the job, you need to provide your information again in order to proceed further.
Please let me have the below details:
Full Names:
Address: (P.O Box is not accepted)
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Tel:
Email:
Age:
Gender:
Your current or recent job:
We want someone who can use a Yahoo Instant Message OR Hotmail, AOL to chart with our department for update .
Please note, you must be above 18 years of age to be eligible for this job, I want to assure you once again that you will never use your own money for any expenses, your $1200 salary will be paid twice, $600 weekly and the remaining funds will be provided constantly which will never finish in order to avoid you spending your own money so when the remaining funds are low additional remaining funds will be provided, and you are not require to buy anything to begins the job,it is a straight forward job opportunity, please do let me know how we should proceed and you can get start immediately.
Best Regards,
MR HALBURN E. ANDERSON

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