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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: "Mr. Boateng Ayu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pvt7u77@yahoo.cn>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:31:25 -0400
Subject: GOLD OFFER

Greetings and good day,


I am Mr. Boateng Ayu. We are small scale Miner Groups. Our company is the head of about Ten Groups of scale miners. We believe in long term and secured business. We do business through the government Geological Surveys Department. Any quantity you may need is valuable.

Wish to contact you as a result of the under mentioned resources. The company is on their effort to meet up with the 2011 vision and scrutinize the indigenous miners to pave way for international investors.

The Executives of this company has therefore mapped out for a three-phase project, quantities of both alluvial Gold nuggets and Gold dust for immediate auction sales to purchase certain mining equipment to face-lift the small-scale industry.The project has taken off and we are looking for buyers internationally for the following Hallmark.

Quantity: 300Kg – Alluvial Gold dust and above.
Purity: 93 +%
Quality: 22 Karats,
Price: USD40,000. Per Kilo give away auction price.
Origin. Ghana

We will be glad to send to you our full corporate offer (FCO) with legal responsibility, under penalty of perjury, sales and purchase of our product, A.U Metal Gold under the following terms and condition. It is imperative that you should come down to Ghana or delegate your representative to visit the spot for assessment of the quality of the product in question.

Buyer visits the location of the gold in Ghana, inspects and make payment for his/her shipment to his destination of choice for final refinery, as we will take care of the export clearance documents here in Ghana. We will equally appreciate if we can expand our market through you by linking us to more buyers. You will be rewarded with a negotiable 5% of the total amount after sales. For further information or negotiation, contact me using this email address below:

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Boateng Ayu.
Sales Manager
Eamil: mr.ayu@w.cn

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