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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Fraud email example:

From: "PETER OFORI" <jakline_mike@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kristiandone@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:40:16 +0100
Subject: URGENT


Dear Sir
I am PETER OFORI from TRANS RESOURCES GHANA LIMITED
We deal in Gold and diamonds and all kinds of natural resources.
Our company is established in the capital of Ghana, Accra .The main
aim and objectives are to represent, promote and sell AU Gold dust for Ghanaian local small scale miners on the international market to enable us expand the production capacity of the miners by securing machine for them to operate with.
It is therefore our wish to advetise for foreign investors or buyers who can buy or invest . It is also our wish to find prospective buyers. The company has in stock about 350kg AU Gold dust the quality is 22 carat and the price is $8,200 the carat is 23+. So if you're interested in this we need your immediate response which will be very much appreciated for further transaction.
The buyer can choose to come down to inspect the goods and one
person from our company will accompany you to your destination or our company will send goods to you in your country and please we want to enter into joint-venture ship for long term basis and we are ready to supply you every month if only you can afford it.

Please let us know the quantities you need for the initials before we can give you a full co-operate offer.
Also we are about 15 different mining companies and TRANS RESOURCES GHANA LIMITED is the head of the groups.And concerning Bullion gold we can supply you in Guinea or Burkina Faso.
We are waiting for your response as soon as possible. :+233244762786
Yours faithfully,

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