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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: "Afiakwa Asomaning" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <afiakwaasomaning88@ig.com.br>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 20:39:52 +0800
Subject: GOLD BARS BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP IS HIGHLY NEEDED

Hello Friend,
 
My name is Mr. Afiakwa Asomaning. I am a director of field operation Ghana custom excise and preventative service. I am in searching for honest gold dealer or who knows anyone who deal on gold that I can trust to help me receive my 176 kilograms of gold I have here and sell it in his or her country. To be frank with you I seized the gold from the illegal exporter at the Kotoka International Airport Accra Ghana when they were about to smuggle it into Airline and ship it out of the country without following the Ghana Government procedure on gold shipment.
 
I will be very glad if you can indicate your interest to help me sell the gold in your country. I am very happy when I saw your profile on line. Please all I need from you is a maximum Sincerity, Trust, Honesty and Love. Please before we start this business, I will like you to send me your personal contact details.As soon as I got your personal contact details, we shall have an agreement that can define the terms and conditions in which we shall conduct the gold business including the amount the gold will sold in your country and how we can ship it. When we have the agreement written, both of us will go through it, sign it and send it back to each other. We shall afterwards do the shipment of the gold to your country and after you sale the entire gold, you shall send me the amount we shall agree on the price of the gold I sold to you.
 
Please before I forget I will not like anyone to know about the gold business we are about to embark because I seized the gold from the illegal exporters at the Kotoka International Airport Accra Ghana and I am still serving as field operation Ghana custom excise and preventative service which you know the important of my position in the Ghana Custom. This gold was supposed to belong to my country government for confiscating it from the illegal exporters but since the people in Government cannot account it for the good people of Ghanaian, I have to hide it from them for mine and my entire family good. I just want to use this opportunity given to me by God to sale the gold so that I can resign from my custom work and invest the money in your country and come over there with my family as soon as you sale all the gold or even stay back here and start good business that can be profitable for me with my own part of the money that will be realized from the sale of the gold instead of answering sir
 
Thank you and May God bless you and family.
 
Best regards,
 
Mr.Afiakwa Asomaning
Phone:+233545849813

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