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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: "AMAX GOLD TRADING GROUP" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sparkminers@postribe.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:08:45 +0100
Subject: LOOKING FOR RELIABLE BUYER .

Dear Respectful,



Compliment of the season greeting to you and your company, it is my pleasure of great desire to work with your company trading activities, over the years our company have brought together sellers and buyer of cocoa and coffee, but right now we engage into mining project, and on hand we have 850kgs, of gold dust 92% purity or better 22+cts, also 4460.4cts rough diamond mainly from 3-100cts single stones , here in Netherlands export from Ghana and Sierra Leone, more also some value things. My name is Prince Williams originally from Sierra Leone, I represent four family mining site in different region and control a diamond mining area in Sierra Leone dist of KONO, KENEMA, PORTLOKO AND BO WATER closer to BIG BO, capability to supply monthly up to 1500-1600kg and +/- 4300-5900cts 12.20 5/13 of rough diamond monthly,
I also have about 2400kgs left behind in Ghana office due to the shortage of shipping charge. I was invited by a Korean broker who presented himself as a buyer to LONDON as he told me that it is a free zone country later found out all he said was lie only to take advantage of me,
so I quickly asked the diplomat to move the consignment over to Ghana, I have been looking forward to come across a positive buyer for my goods, the consignment right now under the control of diplomat.



I am contacting you in order to locate for me a serious buyer at a commission of 5% per kg, 5% on the rough diamond and am willing to go for long term supply contract. You may have any question please do not hesitate to reach me on my number or by email. More also we really want to invest out side our country like Asia and we found out that there are more diamond buyer in Indonesia and Hong Kong / UAS hence am contacting you for partnership and further investment assistance as we got no ideal on businesses running around Asia, furthermore we are also interested in purchasing machine and modern equipment for our mining site and also to present you to the government of Sierra Leone as our sponsor whereas we shall be using our investment capital to run every project.

We here by seeking your help in any kind of way and manner for we all mutual benefit, the diamond are over 17million United States dollars, in which we can draw a plan to open up a cutting and polishing company if we do not want to sell as rough, but we have a plan also to make this project big, but your advice as someone we already establish here in Europe to assist us and show us the way. You see because of the delay and none attendance of Mr Kim who invited us and claim to be a buyer, the diplomat want to send our consignment back to Africa, and this is the utter most reason of contacting you urgently for cover up and assistance of investing through you or your company.


Faithfully,
Prince WILLIAMS
Enterpreneur
Email: sparkminers@postribe.com
AMAX GOLD TRADING GROUP (GH) LIMITED
P.0. BOX C227 CANTOMENTS ACCRA-GHANA

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