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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Nana Kwasi Boadi" <nkwasiboadi@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: nana_kwasiboadi@mail.com
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:21:22 +0200 (CAT)
Subject: GOLD PROPOSAL FROM NANA KWASI BOADI II (CHIEF OF TARKWA BREMAN)


Dear Sir/Madam,

Please pardon me for not having the liberty of knowing your mindset before
writing you this letter without any formal introduction,thank you also for
taking out time to read this message despite all the spam around. I am
Nana Kwasi Boadi II Chief of Tarkwa Breman in Ghana West Africa a
miniature community that is blessed with Gold as I write to you, we the
family of Boadi in Tarkwa rural community in Ghana have presently 651kg of
Alluvial Gold Dust and 435kg of Gold Bars that we want to dispose/sell to
enable the purchase of the gold mining equipment that our community needs
at the moment to increase our mine. Please if interested kindly write
back.

With Much Regards
Nana Kwasi Boadi II
(Chief of Tarkwa Breman)



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