419 scam: "Dr.Fred Asare"<test@test.com> CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL?

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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 free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- dr.fredasareofficelimited@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Fred Asare" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Dr.fredasareofficelimited@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:45:43 -0400
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL?

Attn:Directors,

Sir,

My name is Fred Asare, a representative of mining community in Takwadum community Ghana West Africa.

I am writing to seek your interests to partner with us as financier for mining and exportation of gold dust from

our mining site in Ghana West Africa.

The condition for this transaction is very transparent and simple, our mining sites are very rich in alluvial gold

dust, without modern mining equipment we can mine 20-35 grams of gold every day, if you assist us with modern

mining equipment we will get more gold dust pay day and the price will be less from what is sale in open market.

If you will be interested to enter into business partnership with us we will send you our sale purchase and

partnership agreement for you to study and fly down to Ghana for signing after inspecting our mining site.

We have some gold dust on the ground 100 kg,also we can arrange for more gold if you are a big buyer. after you go

through our SPA and want to buy the gold we have on the ground we can start from there.our asking price is us$33000

bush price,the quality of our gold are 22 carat+ 96% purity not less than 94%.

I will be waiting for your quick and positive reply for me to send you our sales purchase and partnership agreement

for your perusal before we proceed.

Regards,

Fred Asare

Contact me on our company email address (Dr.fredasareofficelimited@aol.com) or phone +233-244-826-638 for us to

seal this deal.

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