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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: "Raymond Dogbe" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <RaymondDogbe@gmx.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:33:42 +0800
Subject: Re:

Hello.

Good day to you.

I am , one of the community Chief, a gold mining community called Tarkwah here in the

Republic of Ghana. this community is having a large quantity of gold material this period

since there is much rain now. we really need a trustworthy person to entrust this business

project with.

We use to sell our product in the local market but this time we need a foreign partner in

your country who can buy or market our product because we need the income in bulk for the

development of the community and buying of some small mining facilities that we can use for

some local mines too.

Here are the quality of our product:

Quantity: 550 kilograms available monthly
Quality: 22. karat alluvial Au
Origin: Ghana , West Africa
PRICE :15% Less of world market price

Thus we can provide service to any part of the world.We are prepared to offer the quantity

of gold required to the Buyer upon their arrival here in Accra Ghana. We need any

interested honest and reliable fellow to come down to Ghana,and sign a memorandum of

understanding with us then we can give any quantity of gold dust and bar for you to sale

and return our balance after sales.

Dear, if you are interested please, get back to me immediately for further details and

proper business.

I wait for your reply urgently on my email

Best Regards.

Raymond Dogbe

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