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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: Clara Toure <claratoure2012@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Clara Toure <clara.toure22@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 19:49:00 +0900 (JST)
Subject: DEAR,


Dear,
I am MR TOURE CLARA Api. , from Accra Ghana, field representative of
the son of late "Happi Api" the traditional ruler of Ashanti Kingdom.
After the death of his father, he inherited his properties, like Gold
concession and other inheritances.  Before the death of my father, he
instructed me confidentially to seek for a reliable foreign partner
for the development of our family Gold concession and purchasing of
modern mining equipments which will help our miners to produce more
and large quantity of Gold weekly.
Presently, we have three hundred and fifty kilo of alluvial Gold dust
which we got from our family Gold mining concession. Right now, as a
matter of fact, I am writing you to seek buyers of Gold both in bars
and gold Dust.
As I said earlier, we are looking for buyers, we have three hundred
and fifty kilo ram (350KG) dawn for sell and we ship to buyers
destination point we also advise our buyers to come down to Ghana for
the transaction & we shall give them all necessary assistance that
will facilitate their coming and guarantee their security while they
in Ghana.
Based on your interest to buy from us any quantity you want or even
the three hundred and fifty (350kg) we have presently, we are willing
to negotiate the price with you, any other buyer or partner you may
like to introduce to buy the Gold. We will also give you ten percent
(10%) of the amount for the total quantity he may buy as your
commission based on your kind assistance.
Every information you may need concerning Gold including the price &
purity .if I receive your positive answer.
Thanks
MR TOURE CLARA,

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