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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: "AGES MINING COMPANY." <agesmining@ghana.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: agesminingcompany@mail2ghana.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:54:46 +0100
Subject: AGES MINING COMPANY GHANA LTD.


Good day,

We are Small-Scale Mining Company here in Ghana trading
in Gold and Diamond.We are looking for a foreign
partner for a long time relationship, if you are
interested this is our following conditions:

Product = Alluvial Gold dust
Quantity = 1 tones
Price = 9500USD
Purity = 22+Carat
Origin = Ghana, West Africa
Monthly Supply = 50k

The buyer has to come to Ghana to inspect the goods
and visit our mining site and sign contract with us.
If the buyer needs more goods, we can contact near
by small-scale mining company for requesting goods.

The buyer has to pay 15 percent of the total value
of the goods for the arrangement for the shipment of
the goods, that is custom duties, flait, insurrance, form A2 and etc.
If he is a broker 5 percent commition.For further information contact me through
My phone number.
(00233 243 822 448)

AGES MINING COMPANY LTD.
P.O.BOX 320
ACCRA, GHANA

Best Regards
Prince Kofi



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