419 scam: "Mitchell Rothwell"<mitchellrothwell1@gmail.com> RE: WANT TO BUY GOLD?.

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447031800873 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mitchell Rothwell" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mitchellrothwell1@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:10:50 -0400
Subject: RE: WANT TO BUY GOLD?.

Dear Sir/ Madam,

My name is Mitchell Rothwell; I am the principal partner to global initiative/vision investment consultant East Africa Ltd. I coordinate logistics for our client from our foreign office in London England. Our services include acting as agent and representative to many mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Currently we have the mandate of Colonel Johnson Makwanga who sits atop a diamond and gold mining field in Bunia oriental province of Congo, who has accumulated diamond and gold in our various offshore offices across east Africa/ Europe waiting for buyers.

We sell the best quality gold and diamonds from Congo in East Africa. In stock we have gold bars, gold nuggets, gold dust, and diamond from east and Central African Republic. This has been our deal/ business for years. However due to serious government restrictions and instability in the democratic republic of Congo we decided to base in Nairobi Kenya for a smooth transaction and operation.

We have 150kg of alluvial gold dust, 50kg of gold nuggets, purity 97.6%. 8,500 carats rough uncut diamonds. You have the opportunity to visit us and inspect the stock and sign S.P.A.

More so, recently we signed a contract with a small mining company to be supplying us 15kg of gold dust every week whence we are looking forward to serious buyers who will be capable of buying from us as we agreed with this mining company.

Other products available are:

Electro-copper cathode grade A (20 tones) Congo origin.

Coltan castorite (30 tones) Congo origin.

To this end, if you are interested, do contact us by email as soon as possible. Your urgent response will indicate further negotiations on price and working procedures.

NOTE: only serious buyers are welcome for negotiation, No waste of time. It is a first come first serve bases.

Best regards,

Mitchell Rothwell.
Tel: +44-703-180-0873.

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