Compensation Reward Ineternet Compensation Agent00 International Certified Bank Draft $350,000.00 PLOT 144 another email scam ADEKULE AVN ISOLO LAGOS Internet

ALL OF THESE ARE SCAMS! Any story even remotely like these are scams! Everyone in the civilized world should know this by now!

Ignore each and every one of these dumba$$ emails, period!

I have received hundreds of yours and similar offers in the past and now block them from my mail. Just an example

from: Exporters of Cocoa. costacoffee2uk2@yahoo.co.uk to: no address given and mostly left blank

Exporters of Cocoa.
20 Holloway Road,London,N8 8DB.
Company Reg NO: 3019628
VAT Reg NO:735 773 701
Phone: +44-701 112 8085

Dear Sir/Madam,
The above named company based in the United Kingdom need Representatives world wide. As our Representative in your country, you will receive payments from our customers usually in form of a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, OR CASHIERS CHECK and also establish a medium of contacting our customers in your country.

For example you've got 5000.00USD You take your 10% income: 500.00 USD Send to us 90%: 4300.00 USD

Please if you are interested, forward all required information below to our Enlisting officer;
1. Your Name: 2. Mailing Address: 3. State: 4. Zip 5. Phone Number: 6. Country: 7. Age:
8. E-mail address:
The above information should be forwarded to our Enlisting officer
Mr.Arnold Jefferson
via e-mail costacoffee2uk2@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
Mrs.Daisy Crown.
Secretary.

This is what the FBI and Justice Department call Mule scams named after the drug mules used in drug smuggling.

The basis of the scam is that criminals need to transfer money they have fraudulently gained from Phishing scams by stealing the identity from people and there credit cards etc. to their own bank accounts.

The criminals need this to happen so there is NO way to leave a trace back to them. The criminals send out emails looking to recruit people to act as representative/agents/employees for there bogus company.

Some emails look like legitimate job ads and often link to a website that also looks legitimate. Indeed in some cases the emails can link back to the web sites of real companies.

These criminals are looking for people to act as representatives/agents/employee for the company and to process transactions on the company's behalf.

The potential representative/agent/employee is given a scenario where they are told they will be collecting money from customers and forwarding that money by wire transfer to the company's account.

All potential representatives/agents/employees need to have is an email address and a bank account. Money from customers is transferred into the representatives/agents employee's bank account and the representative/agent/employee then transfers that money, minus a commission, to the criminal's bank account most likely via Western Union.

The first thing the representative/agent/employee knows about the scam is when investigators call at their door or there bank account is frozen.

Yes, honest people are deceived, defrauded, and scammed but also become felony criminals as well. Therefore, do not enter into business with companies that will not provide complete identifying information, will not disclose its true physical location, or will not provide its direct (non-toll free) telephone number.

Be especially careful when the only address provided is a Private Mail Box (PMB) or where an Internet investigation shows that the address is the address of a mail drop or other location from which mail is forwarded to the true address. Many illegitimate companies use these contact methods, not for your benefit, but to hide their identity and any reply by you even of "no interest" emails will be sold and transferred to other scammers.

Never send money by Western Union or other wire transfer to anyone you do not personally know. Demands to be paid by wire transfers are sure signs of a scam. Once money is sent by wire, it is impossible to trace.

Hope this will help then it is sad to say and see how many people fall for such bogus schemes.