419 Legal is owned and managed by the Johannesburg Commercial Branch of the South African Police Services.
It has 3 main aims:
-1) To educate the public about internet fraud by publicising the methods used by scammers to defraud members of the internet community as well as maintaining publicly accessible lists of fraudulent sites.
2) To assist the public in identifying and dealing with specific instances of internet fraud through its public forums.
3) Through its specialist forums, to collect information and intelligence on the activities of internet scammers. Although primarily interested in the activities of the fraudsters resident in South Africa, it is recognised that many criminals operate internationally and any information received on scammers operating in other jurisdictions will be passed onto the appropriate Law Enforcement Agency in the country concerned.
~~~~Here's my story~~~~
Been Burned, Scammed, Taken for a Ride ...
Well don't worry, we have all been there. I doubt there is a single network marketer or homeworker out there who hasn't at some point in their career fallen for an envelope stuffing scheme, been talked into selling potions and pills, tried chain letters etc. But the important thing is to learn from your mistakes and take something from every experience.
My first venture into working from home came when I answered an advertisement in a local paper which stated I could be earning $500-2000 a week part time, with HUD Refunds all I had to do was call.
Then I decided to try It, so I send a money order for $49.99 a couple of weeks later a package came with some brochures and a some information on testimonials in how they maked $20,ooo a month and that I need to invest for that book and a mailing. "But I didn't "
Then I paid a fee to join this company that will pay you $1.00 -$7.00 to Stuff Envelopes, like the others all scam.
This one was the scariest of all:
This happend on oct-11-05 My husband was looking for another job because were he was working It wasn't paying him enough so he applied at
monster.com,
career builder and others looking for a real job to make real $$$.
So one day he received a e-mail from
Adams Smith and he was from the states but he's now living In the UK and that he wanted my husband to partner with him, that he had a textiles company and he had alot of american paying him with money orders and...
It wasn't easy for him to change It that the customers will send the money to us with our name and then we keep a 10% and then send It to him, to put the story short I send him a email If he have a actual website; he did send me one ok so It's real.
It sounded to good to be true
(~RED FLAG~), easy money, he has a real website with his contact information, "Oh Great" this Is real.
Then 3 days later he send us a fed ex pkg but from france and there It clicked to me from france with 5 money orders from Walmart I told my husband these look fake my husband said no he sound like a honest guy "yeah" so I went and did my own research and found
419 legal website and told my husband he said: Noooo .... that the guy been calling him and calling him.
My husband had friends in the Sun National Bank and gave it to them they said: they just received a similar one but this one looks real, he went to another bank they said the same thing. So It made me think, but something inside of me was telling me this is Fraud. Like he send us his Textiles & Company website, I told my husband to call and ask for Adam Smith the President and CEO, he did surprise, they never heard of a Adam Smith working for them another ~RED FLAG~
I told my husband don't do It, then he said: Your right there fake. The guy was calling and calling all day that were is his money....Like he was insisting I said look like is from Walmart lets go and ask them that you don't want to change them but you want to know If there real 10 min pass by 30 min.
There they were police officers passed by and my husband said there fake "oh lord" were going to jail, and I had my baby with me, they came asking us were we got those checks that this is Fraud, and we are in BIG Trouble I fricked out. Then they came back and told us to get the emails from Adam Smith so we made a copy of the emails and gave it to them but they follow us like criminals so thank god we didn't go to jail or pay a ticket. What a Horrible Experience, and It was in Walmart everybody was starring at us .
When something is to good to be true and you see those RED FLAGS you know is fraud, and the GUY keeped calling I was scared... ever since I been receiving so many emails like those, so I post them on their website NEVER EVER give somebody your personal information like licence, social they could use It and at monster and career builder they have a policy about that. So I hope my story and website Is usefull for all you guys and be alert.
P.S: So don't give up, from every bad experience you will learn something, be it a new skill, what to avoid next time, what advertising works or doesn't and so on... Like life home based business, especially on the internet, is a learning experience which you must embrace.
