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  • paulonyico@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Ibrahim. F Abdullah" <aif.employer@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:39:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GEM-ROCK GROUP LTD


GEM-ROCK GROUP LTD
paulonyico.
208 kepy conkery, guinea,
westAfrica.
paulonyico@yahoo.com
www.gemrock-goldgroup.webnode.com
Dear; Sir,
 
I am Mr paulonyico, a native of guinea conkery republic, in West  Africa.
 
I am contacting you on behalf of my community which comprises mainly of local  gold miners.
My responsibilities are: to source buyers for our locally mined gold dust AU, represent my people in sales and purchase process, facilitate communication and publicity of our product internationally.
Hence, we are sourcing for prospective gold buyers, partners and individuals for the sales of our gold dust AU as well as establishing more business relationship that will be durable and viable.
 
Find bellow the specification of our Gold Dust AU
GOLD DUST
QUANTITY....... 120 KG
PURITY............96% or more
QUALITY..........22 or + KARATS.
PRICE............... To be discussed
ORIGIN...............guinea conakery
 
Besides selling Gold Dust AU, we are very much eager to have other business transactions, like investments in other lucrative items and we will appreciate your assistance to guide through in this. This will be effective once we have hard a fruitful transaction from the Gold Dust Transaction.
Should we have a fruitful transaction, we are also interested in boosting production and reduce the present hard labor in mining gold dust, prior to this, we will solicit your kind assistance too to assist us in the purchase of the following mining equipments from your country or elsewhere.
 
PRE-PRODUCTION MINING EQUIPMENTS
 
EQUIPMENT N° OF UNITS
Cat D&N Tractor 1
LOADERS, Cat 992C 2
Haulage, Cat, (777) 3
Grader, Cat 16G 1
Excavator, Cat 245 1
Mechanics truck 1
Water Truck (Cat 777) 1
Fuel/Service truck 1
Support vehicles 5 INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENTS
Ø      Backup Generator
Ø      Shop Facilities tools
Ø      Buildings, Fuel, Power line  l wait to hear from you soonest.
Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.
 
Kind Regards
paulonyico
 


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