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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: mensah william <mensah1_2005@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:09:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GOLD DUST FOR SALE


From: Mensah williams.
CEO,
BONTE
ASHANTI-REGION,
GHANA .
Good day Sir,
I wish to inform you that there is 22+ carat gold dust for sale. I am the eldest son of late Nana williams, owner of obuorivers gold mines Obuasi village in Ghana.
After the death and demise of my father, having a polygamus family, a lot of things went wrong.

Now I have decided to take full responsibility of the company assets and its operations as the first son. Right now, I want to sell 200kilos to you. The income will be used to purchase modern mining equipments, tractors, etc. from Germany and also contract a new geologist from Canada.

We are not interested in international price. We will give you at 11,000USD (ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) per kilo since we are in urgent need of cash to buy the equipments.
We do not have much time to waste so declare your interest as soon as you get this mail and if you could be of a link, there is a percentage that awaits you.

Waiting for your kind response.



Yours faithfully,
Mensah williams.
Director.



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