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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: "Dr. Mrs Ada Emillia" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <adaemillia@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:06:51 +0100
Subject: Available Gold at 99,99% (Gold Bar) And (91.66%) plus,unrefined (Gold Dust)

More About me.  My name is Dr. Mrs. Ada Emillia Ahmed Bin  Venezuela Citizen. We are searching for a prospect buyer of the products enlisted Below:
 
 
COMMODITY SPECIFICATIONS AVAILABLE:
 
Commodity: Unrefined Gold (AU)
Form:      Metal Bars And Dust Form
Purity   : Ninety One Point Sixty-Six Percent (91.66%) plus,unrefined (Gold Dust) We can supply any quantity needed by you or your company.
More Info: Non Hallmarked Refined Gold at 99,99% (Gold Bar) We can supply any quantity needed by you or your company
 
 
Right now I am  looking for a trustworthy and reliable person/company who I will deal with. If you are willing to purchase our goods which is currently in Accra-Ghana, you have to contact our sales representative in Ghana where the product is located presently. Once He receive your mail indicating your interest to purchase the product above, he will educate you on the way forward and provide you the SCO/FCO on the terms of the contract.
 
 
Buyer will need to travel down to our office as will be agreed to terms and modality of the transaction and this will enable you to have direct meeting with our mining office and the village chiefs where the miners are at work , the buyer takes  random sampling for test to ascertain the purity of the gold and affordable price will be offered to prospect buyer once the random test is confirmed by the buyer.
 
 
Seller undertakes to ship all the qauntities of the Gold purchased to the buyers nominated bullion bank or refinery depending on the agreed terms once the buyer arrive to Ghana to endorse a contract.
 
 
Wishing to have long lasting contract.
 
Dr.Mrs. Ada Emillia
 
CONTACT OUR SALES REPRESENTATIVE IN ACCRA-GHANA FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PROCEDURE TO ENABLE BOTH OF YOU SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT ON WHEN YOU WILL ARRIVE GHANA FOR RANDOM SAMPLE TEST AND ENDORSEMENT OF THE CONTRACT.
Mr.Any Ray
Me Pegnon, Mao-Militaire close,
Kofi Anan Street, p.o.box 2461
Tamale -Ghana
Tel:+233 543325785
Email: anyraychammber@hotmail.com
 
 
 
 
 

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