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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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Fraud email example:

From: Prince Aminu Hassan Ibrahim <aminuhassan112@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: aminuhassan@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PROPOSAL FOR THE SALES/PURCHASE OF GOLD DUST


Dear Friend,
 

I am a spokesman of a Royal Community in (Akwatia), a town in the Gold Producing part of Ghana, which is the largest gold producing country in West Africa. We have had problems with the previous regimes of our country over our rich gold fields, but have  been favored by the present NDC administration, therefore we have been in mining operation since  January 2009 till date, so we have a total of 250 kilograms of gold dust presently which we intend to sell and use the proceeds to acquire Ultra Modern Mining Equipments to expand our mining skills and capacity.
I am willing to come to meet with you (Insha-Allah!) if you are interested, with the following verifiable documents for your records and confirmation about my backgrounds and legitimacy.
1.    Mineral Commission and Mines Department of Ghana “Correspondences”.
2.    Feasibility report for the alluvial gold.
3.    Africa and Ghana maps showing the position of our gold fields.
4.    Five Site Plans of our Goldfields.
5.    Environmental Protection Agency Agreement.
6.    Exploration gold samples and goldfield pictures.
7.    Work programme for further exploration of hard rock gold ore deposit in our goldfields.
8.    Exploration license (extracts) copies.
9.    Certificate of Incorporation and Commencement of Business.
10. Geological Survey and history of the goldfields and the surroundings. Brief Info About
Akwatia (my town)
Akwatia is a small town located in the Kwaebibirem District, Ghana (Eastern Region). Diamonds were first discovered along the River Birim, in an area nineteen miles northwest of Akwatia, in  1919. Over 100 million carats of diamonds have been recovered from the area by the government before gold was later discovered in my very location of the town. My town is a place where lucky farmers sometimes finds nugget gold and diamonds in the ground during farming, mostly after major rain falls.
The land of my entire community according to geological analysis has large deposit of
gold/diamond and it is the only part of Ghana where you get 23+-karat purity of gold, others are below.  Our advantage is that, my family rules over majority of the land, therefore we don't operate on just one site.  Another advantage is that, you find more of the commodity along the River Birim and we own majority of the land along the river (which is what brought about the dispute between the government and my family).  We also have the right or the power to negotiate and own any land of our choice within our community.
I wish to assure you sincerely that we have enormous opportunities to benefit if your utmost cooperation, sincerity and confidentiality will be given to us.
 
I will personally meet with you (Insha-Allah) for detail discussion right after confirmation of your acceptance to work with us.
 
“Wassalam”
 
Prince Aminu Hassan




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