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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: JAMES OFA <jamesofa3@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 21:18:57 +0000
Subject: OUR OFFER




Hello dear,


I know my mail may come to you as surprise, though the only means of moving business further these days are through advertising.


First my name is James Ofa and a Ghanaian citizen, well my reason of contacting you is to introduce you to our business and to know your interest of patronizing us.


We are Small Scale gold Mining group Company here in Konongo Odumase village of Ashanti Region Ghana; we are looking for interested foreign buyers who will be our patronage for long term business relationship, though we has some residence Chinese nationals who are usually patronize the group, but their patronage is unfavorable to our group due to their way of dealing with us, most especially their delays in paying our balance after purchase and depositing part payment and promised of paying balance quickly after selling to their visited customers, but sometimes in months we won’t receive our balance nor to see them for new demand, for that reasons we decided to suspend their dealings with us and arrange for licensed company who can use their permit selling license to back us for direct sales to foreign buyers, therefore we seek to know if you are interested in dealing with our group direct in terms of purchase in affordable price.


We accept purchase part payment from buyers after conducting of assay here in Ghana while our representative accompany the buyer and the gold to buyers destination to witness the final assay at buyers choice of refinery and to receive our balance either by cash or through sellers bank account.


We shall send you our purchase agreement as soon as you confirm your interest in dealing with us, meanwhile we has in our possession the following ready to sell out.


Our available quality products are below:-


1, METAL: Gold Dore Bars
2, FORM: Dore Bars
3, QUALITY: 22 Carats or better
4, PURITY: Approximately 94% PLUS
5,ORIGIN: Ghana


Confirm your willingness through my private email ( ofajohn@outlook.com )
Sincerely

James Ofa

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