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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: "Prince Edwin Kwesi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <prince_edwinkwesi1@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:18:39 +0100
Subject: Our family Gold dust

Hello

God Day!

Let me introduce myself properly to you. I am Prince Edwin Kwesi, a spokesman of a Royal Family in Akwatia, a gold producing Community in the Eastern Region of Ghana, which is the largest gold producing country in West Africa.

I am writing to ascertain your interest and capability of buying or marketing Alluvial Gold Dust, which we presently have because we need a strong capable buyer or marketer.

We have after a long court case (delayed justice) won our right over a Gold Concession and have been in the gold mining business for the past 15 months. We have a quantity of 250kgs of Alluvial Gold Dust of 23+ Carats plus, selling at a very reasonable price USD 25 , 500 per (1) kilo ( Negotiable) where the world market price is at about USD 32 , 000. We need a direct buyer abroad who can buy the commodity and possibly go into partnership agreement with us, as to front us and also acquire the necessary modern mining equipments to improve our mining capacity and skills that will take us to the next level.

Brief about Akwatia (my town):

Akwatia is a small town located in the Kwaebibirem District, Ghana (Eastern Region). Diamonds were first discovered along the Birim River, in an area nineteen miles northwest of Akwatia, in 1919. Over 100Mil carats of diamonds have been recovered from the area by the government before gold was later discovered in my very location of the town. My town is a place where lucky farmers sometimes finds nugget gold and diamonds in the ground during farming, mostly after major rain falls.

The land of my entire community according to geological analysis has large deposit of gold/diamond and it is the only part of Ghana where you get 23+-karat purity of gold, others are below. Our advantage is that, my family rules over majority of the land, therefore we don't operate on just one site. Another advantage is that, you find more of the commodity along the River Birim and we own majority of the land along the river (which is what brought about the dispute between the government and my family). We also have the right or the power to negotiate and own any land of our choice within our community.

My grand parents were un-educated and therefore could not do what we are about to do now. Otherwise, we would be singing a different song by now. Nevertheless, it is not late for us if you are truly serious and keep to your words and we are able to start now. It is an opportunity that will last almost forever if we put in the right investment structures. We are in the verge to take our community to the next level. We want our people to enjoy from the endowment of our lands.

We have been able to lift a good quantity of our AU Gold Dust/Smelted Bars to the United Kingdom with the help of some dedicated diplomats and it is imperative that our partner or buyer will visit the United Kingdom for sight seeing and arrangements with our family relative because Seeing is believing!

Our Condition is that: Buyer will not pay any upfront payment.

Yours truly,
Prince Edwin Kwesi
(For The Family)

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