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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: George Owusu <anyi1door2004@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: George Owusu <georgeowusu833@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:02:34 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From Chief George


Dear Friend,
 
My name is HRH Chief George Owusu 11 the Bisiasi Autonomous community leader in Central Region of Ghana.

Sir, we are operating cooperative mining Emperors and we are looking for reliable buyer that will partner our community mining. Our current mining capacity will avail us the opportunity of producing 10-15KG of gold every month and we are pressing hard to improve on our productivity

Sir, if both of us have better understanding we shall commit between 3KG-5KG of Gold Bars weekly into your care so that it will be received, assayed, sold and send our share of the proceeds to a company in Berlin Germany for the supply of modern mining equipment that will boost our productivity. Our price at the mining gate is $28, 000.00 Per Kilo at 23 Carat Purity.

Sir, the logistics we have in our position will be able to procure the entire export documents while you assist us with the cost Air Freight through Universal Express Courier Services

Let us know if this workable so that I will provide with our FCO on our letter heard

Chief George Owusu 11










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