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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: Prince Rince <princerince83@yahoo.com.my>
Reply-To: princewil46@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:15:07 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: AU GOLD OFFBR


Dear SirThanks for your response. Please find below our proposal for supplying gold bars:
1. We are ready, willing and able to start immediately with trial shipments of gold bars to your refinery. However, you or arepresentative must fly down whilst we make the trial shipment. Thesetrial shipments will be done at our own expense without any dime orcommitment from the buyer. The aim is to disabuse your minds of anyhanky panky games and to build trust for a long term relationship.Formerly, we did the flying to the buyer's location with the gold butwe realized they were taking us for granted and were not seriousbecause there was no commitment. Before we fly to any buyer's locationwe will need a firm commitment.
2. The discount structure I have submitted below is our pricing.We must all have a point of reference with regards to price.This is theobjective of the discount structure:


1kg to 10kg =  2.5% discount from LBMA 
10kgs to 20kg = 3.5% 
20kgs to 50kg = 5.0% 
50kgs and above = 10.0% 
3. After the trial shipments, we will expect the buyer to pre-finance the regular and revolving shipments. A payment guarantee, LC, SBLC,etc is not suitable. We have over 40 buying centers where we buy theraw dust on a cash and carry basis, smelt at our own costs beforeshipping at our own costs apart from what we produce from our mines.We cannot therefore use a payment guarantee to buy the gold from thesmall scale miners on a regular basis before we export to you. Gold isproduced every day and there is high competition. We need the funds toblock any quantity that is mined, buy, melt into bars and ship toyou.This is the only way we can supply you regularly and meet ourcontractual obligations to you. If you can fund us, we can ship youmore gold on a revolving and regular basis. We can start with 50kgevery two weeks to your refinery and then increase as we go along.Thisis why we are asking for buyer to fly down for us to discuss andfinalize the terms of
this pre-financing in details. We have therecord of past and present gold shipments. We are licensed by thegovernment of Ghana to export gold legally.
4. Sales and purchase contract we will sign with your buyer after the trial shipments.
I look forward to your prompt response. contact me on my personal email princewil46@yahoo.com or call me on this number 00233240714535
Regards, 
Prince Will

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