419 scam: "moohammed"<kay77887@gmail.com> GOLD MINING PROPOSAL AS SHARE HOLDER

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "kayodemoh@contractor.net" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "moohammed" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kayodemoh@contractor.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:13:56 -0700
Subject: GOLD MINING PROPOSAL AS SHARE HOLDER

DEAR FRIEND,
This may come to you as a fragment word but to it’s a big opportunity for both of us, and these opportunity
might be of no kind anywhere in the earth, my name is Kayode Mohammed I am in the Nigeria's Ministry of
Mines and Steel Development as a PA to Dr. Kola Ojo, and I will want to use this medium to call for your
solid cooperation and trust for us to be a share holder in the ministry. I have confide in my boss and he said
I should go ahead as a figure head in the matter, now that the Government has asked us to seek the
consent of companies, organization and individuals that we can partner with to developed the gold sector in
Nigeria, since the Nigerian law has said its illegal for individual person to dig or get hold of the Nigerian
gold mining, so the deal is as simple as it maybe. For more info http://allafrica.com/stories/201005031323.
htmlhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RFQAtGnvG-AJ:www.mmsd.gov.ng/downloads/
Gold.pdf+about+Ministry+of+Mines+and+Steel+Development,+gold+mining+in+zamfara&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ng
Once you furnished me with your interest I will forward you what it takes for us to work together and your name or
name of an organization in your country might be used as the incoming company to get involved in it.
Expecting to hear from you and reply to
Kayode Mohammed
kayodemoh@contractor.net

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