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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: MARIAN POONGA <mariannpoonga12@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:06:20 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

Good day

I'm Marian Poonga from DRC, my husband & I have a private mining business
in Congo DRC, where we mine all sorts of mineral resources and currently we
have a waiting buyer in your country South Africa but we have no one to
represent us as our partner over there, we want to partner with you to
receive the mineral stones and assist us to transact with our buyer.

So therefore, I am proposing to work with you in the sales of COLTAN
TANTALITE minerals in SA, as our buyer is waiting and we have signed all
the paperwork with him and we are ready to bring the stones into South
Africa but we need to work with you as a citizen, in other to keep the
supply chain to our buyers constant, i will like to call you
telephonic-ally, so we can discuss your role in the transaction and your
commission as per percentage value..

Please reply to me with your whatsapp number, so i can initiate
communication with you.


Thanks

Mrs. Marian Poonga
For:
Poonga Mineral & Metal Sarl
www.poongammsarls.com

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