419 scam: "Mr. Yusuf Garuba" <africa.investiment@yahoo.com> GOLD DUST FOR SALE / FUNDING

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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!

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This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Yusuf Garuba" <africa.investiment@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: yusufgaruba@workmail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:40:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GOLD DUST FOR SALE / FUNDING

GOODDAY SIR,

We GROUPMENT OF CO-OPERATIVES MINERS located here in Bamako Mali informing you that we are Direct Miner & Seller of Gold in Dust & Bar form, We are capable of producing upto 60kg weekly and 240kg monthly as we represents (5) artisan villagers that are mining gold from there land locally here in Republic of Mali.

We are introducing our self as one of the leading Gold seller here in Mali with a reputation of regards for our customers out there in Europe, Asia, America & Middle East. We are inviting any interesting company, Chain Brokers, Individual person, and direct buyers of Gold Dust, Gold Bar, about our product who will have interest in our offer, please contact us for further communication. Having offered you the follow quality of Gold:

Nature:............Gold Dust / Bar

Quality............22karat +,

Purity:..............93.6% clear.

Price:..............$32,500 Per Kilo

Origine: Republic of Mali

Awaiting your soonest reply and also looking forward to a long term business relationship in the nearest future. Therefore kindly confirm your interest and quantity required?

Further, we currently seek for serious investors in order to make our local site a full scale Gold production company.

Best regards,

Mr.Yusuf Garuba

Senior Consultant

Tell: +223-65.49.90.83

Skype: yusufgaruba

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