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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: "Ghana Gold Miners" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <golddustsaccraghan@pisem.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 23:20:33 +0100
Subject: We need a buyer

Good day,
We are here to advertise our main product all vial gold dust as we are capable to produce up to 50kweekly and 200kg monthly for our potential buyers.
Our company are here in Ghana and we are ready to supply to any potential gold buyers from around the world at a very reasonable price. As we represent a large number of local artisan miners, and we are also capable to provide the best service and security to our customers.
Following is the information’s of our product and we strictly transact on FOB basis.
Commodity..............Alluvial Gold Dust and Gold brick
Price..................$30.000 per kg
Quality................22 + carat plus
Purity.................92.6% Better
Packing................Export Package Boxes.
Quantity Available.....300kg
Origin.................Ghana
QUANTITY:    between 100kg to 300kg or more quantity depending on buyers quantity demands, for trail shipment.
Delivering: Within 72Hours after all the Necessary Export Documents issued to the buyer or buyers representative and the product will be accompanied by two of our workers to the buyers country of destination.
Assay reports provided by Laboratories, Ghana, Our firm is in position of the Gold Export Certificate issued by the Government of Ghana necessary to export gold from Ghana and we can provide service to any part of  the world.
We are prepared to offer the quantity of gold required to the Buyer {or their representative} upon their arrival here in Ghana. Therefore kindly confirm your interest and quantity required?
Further, we currently seek outside-based serious investors on a partnership basis in order to increase our production capacity. Please, if you are interested in this proposal, or have any further questions, kindly contact me for better understanding.
Best regards,
Mr. Benjamin Mensah
Senior Agent  
Accra  Ghana VILLAGE GOLD MINERS
Email messagebox@hotmail.ru

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