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Dr. Wilson O. Ezekiel

This is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! DO NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Dr. Wilson Ezekiel <wilson.laceman@gmail.com> Reply-to:     wilson.laceman@live.com Subject:     A Job Offer For You At Your Leisure Date:     Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:30:07 +0900 (04:30 EDT)  Dear Friend, How are you doing? I would be very interested in offering you a part-time paying job in which you could earn a lot. My names are Dr. Wilson O. Ezekiel and I am 52 years of age.   I have just resigned my job as a research scientist at Asia Agricultural research Institute in Malaysia and I now work as a freelance consultant for the institute which gives me very much time to do my own work which is basically being a freelance researcher who could be employed by research institutes to do research projects anywhere in the world.     Currently, I have just been granted a funding to head a research project in the tropical regions of Asia regarding rare and vulnerable plant species and this would be commencing very soon.   This research program will be funded and sponsored by some of my counterparts in your country. But the only set back is that my associates want to make payments for the research in form of bank transfer or Check only.   WHAT I NEED YOU FOR? At this point, I will be glad if you could work with me as my representative in your country. You will be working as my payment assistant in charge of collecting the Funds from my Associates.   Since they will be making the payment form of bank transfers/Check to you in your country, you will be collecting this payments and cashing them on my behalf. On agreement to been my representative, you will receive a commission of 10% of whatever amount of payment you receive from my associates.   JOB DESCRIPTION? 1. Receive payments from My Clients/Associates through bank transfers or check.   2. Cash the Payments at your Bank.   3. Deduct 10% which will be your commission/percentage on Payment processed.   4. You are to remit the balance via Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer.   ADVANTAGES? You don't have to go out of your present daily activity in order to engage in this Job(i.e. you can do this Work easily without leaving or affecting your present Job).   You will work as an independent contractor right from your home /office. Your job is absolutely legal.   You do not need any capital to start (non of your personal funds is needed).   To indicate your interest in this pending project, i will like you to provide all this information before we can commence on this pending projects.   NAME:   ADDRESS:   STATE:   CITY:   ZIP CODE:   COUNTRY:   PHONE NUMBER:   AGE:   GENDER:   OCCUPATION:   ALL REPLIES TO BE SENT TO : wilson.laceman@live.com   Regards, Dr. Wilson O. Ezekiel   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people and / or legitimate organizations whose actual names or other details appear in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! Scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, bargain gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO DUMBASS SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail will get mistakenly published here as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your crap mistakenly published on this website as a 419 advance fee scam, the solution is simple. Don't mail your crap to harvested e-mail addresses.