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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: Mr Marc Daniel <mr.ibeadams@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.mm.dd001@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:04:40 +0000
Subject: GOLD DORY BAR 100% CIF FOR SALE,

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Dearest Buyer,

I am contacting you for a contract on GOLD DUST, And GOLD DORE BARS,
There are bulk of gold dust for sell to interested buyers, Our office
is representing so many local mining communities in Cote d'Ivoire
(Ivory Coast), to sale there gold dust and gold dory bars. our price
is so much good just reply us and you will be happy to work with us as
we don't want anyone to fail into bad and fake sellers.

If you are interested, you can visit our company and mines; you can
see the quantity available and go to refinery to inspect the quality
before making agreement and exporting of the gold to your destination.

More also we are selling on 100% CIF until buyer's refinery destination.

1.) All local government taxes (Cote d’Ivoire) are always paid by the Seller.

2.) All import taxes, VAT and charges to be paid at buyer’s final
destination are always to be assumed and paid by the Seller, as well
as the Security transfer from Customs to the buyer’s refinery.

If you are not a buyer but can as well get us a buyer for our Gold
Dust/gold dory bar, we will pay you commission of 3% for 1 kilo for
any quantity we supply to buyer through you, just get us a serious
buyer.

DECLARATION: We hereby declare the above information to be true and
correct to the best of our knowledge and this offer is being made
without prejudice.

Thank for your co-operation and i wait for your email.
Regards.
Mr Marc Dani

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