The e-mail here 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 one on this page 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:     Martins <staffpam22@yahoo.com> Reply-to:     bill.martins440@gmail.com Subject:     Hello Friend! Date:     Mon,  8 Dec 2008 05:42:15 +0000 (GMT) (00:42 EST) Sender:     aphot198f4@vittorio.webconexion.co.uk Hello Dear Good Day to you, My name is Bill Martins, I'm an Artist by Profession and I have decided to contact you with a Job Offer. I'm looking for a representative in USA, This job offer will earn you  At least $2,500 every month and it's part time (1-2hrs a day). Some of  my  USA customers want to make Art payment to me and they  want to pay me with  USA Money Orders and Checks, which is hard for me to cash here in the UK, So I decided to search for a reliable and honest person in USA to help me in cashing the MO and send me cash here in UK. If you are interested, this job offer will not affect your present work, all I need from you is utmost honesty, trust, steady communication and easy access to the internet kindly send me the information's below and I will have my customers send the payment to you immediately: * Full Name. * Residential Address(In Full,Not P.O.BOX). * State and Zip code. * Contact Home Phone number(s). * Cell number's. * Email. Reply me as soon as possible only if you are interested as soon as I receive the above details from you work will commence. Regards Martins   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER 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, cheap 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 SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published here as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam crap mistakenly published on this website as an advance fee scam, the solution is simple. Don't send me your spam crap.