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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: "Dr, Bennard Koffi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fngsenatpresident@presidency.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:16:33 -0400
Subject: samajanaa

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The attached message from "Dr, Bennard Koffi" <presidentgoodluckjonat@presidency.com> (<presidentgoodluckjonat@presidency.com>)
was determined by the Spam Blocker to be spam based on a score
of 13.8 where anything above 3.5 is spam.

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Reply-To: <fngsenatpresident@presidency.com>
From: "Dr, Bennard Koffi"<presidentgoodluckjonat@presidency.com>
Subject: samajanaa
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:16:33 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a spokesman of Akwatia Community in Eastern Region of Ghana,the largest
gold producing area of Ghana in West Africa. As earlier discussed,
we have After a long court case won our right over a Gold Concession and
have been in a small-scale mining business for the past nine months.


We presently have a Quantity of 20kgs of Alluvial Gold Dust/Gold bars of
96+ Carats purity and selling at Avery reasonable price.

We sell a kilo of gold dust/And Gold Bars for €27,000.00 we need a direct
buyer abroad who
can buy the commodity from us directly once you are ready we will make all
modalities arrangements to transport the gold from Africa Ghana to Europe

Through Diplomatic Cargo shipment to meet with the buyer in person to access
and test the gold purity and pay in cash. This is because of our Government
strict policies on Gold Trade here in Africa Ghana further details will be
explained to you if you are interested.

Be aware that we also sell in lower kilos from 10kgs and above, Please write
me urgently on this email-address: IF You are eligible and interested.
Email:bennard.koffi@aim.com

Yours truly,

Dr, Bennard Koffi

AKWATIA COMMUNITY
Gold Mining & Prospecting,
Import & Export
Eastern Region
Ghana
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