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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: Chief Akia Byaitaka <je350509@gmail.com>
Reply-To: chiefakiabyaitaka17177@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:05:43 -0700
Subject: Business proposal,

Good day to you. My name is Chief Akia Byaitaka. I am the community Head
Chief of Rupa Gold mine of Karamoja, a gold mining community called
Karamoja here in the Republic of Uganda. This community is having a large
quantity of Gold product this period since there is much rain now.

I got your contact while searching for a reliable, honest and trustworthy
person and I decided to contact you to see if we could be good friends...I
hope you don't mind? We really need a trustworthy person to entrust this
business project with. We used to sell our produce in the local market but
this time we need a foreign partner who can market our produce because we
need the income in bulk for the development of the community and buying of
some small mining equipment that we can use for some local mines too.

We need your honesty and interest to sign a Memorandum of Understanding
with us, then we can give you the offer of buying and selling of our Gold
product, we can as well offer you on credit to sell and return money if you
are honest with us. At present we have a good quantity kept in a storage
house in London through the help of a god son of the land who resides over
there in the UK.
This good quantity of gold product was kept as reserve for the community
but will still be sold once agreed by the Community leadership and
emergence of a good bidder as well.

Now our questions are:-

1. Can you be faithful to handle this project with us?
2. Can we trust you as a good partner?.

If you are interested, Write to me through this email:(
chiefakiabyaitaka17177@gmail.com)to know your position, Have a good day and
we wish to hear from you soonest to give you more details and a way forward
in this good business opportunity.

Yours Faithfully.
Chief Akia Byaitaka.
Community Head Chief.

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