419 scam: John Adu <info@roadrunner.com> Gold for sale

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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:
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: John Adu <info@roadrunner.com>
Reply-To: <Johnadu2014@1email.eu>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 18:18:04 +0100
Subject: Gold for sale

Attention Sir,

My name is John Adu,I represent over 50 local miners in my community Takwa Ghana west Africa,I am contacting you base on our need for potential buyer for our Gold dust and bars.

Currently we have over 500kg of gold dust in stock and we are looking for potential buyer for the product on FOB bases,

Interested buyer shall come down to Ghana for inspection of the gold before payment and we can accompany the buyer with the gold to his country for final assay and balance payment once buyer can bear the cost of exporting the gold to his refinery in his country.

Note, we have 25kg of gold dust at Netherlands as I am writing you now,the diplomat that convey it there just arrive Netherlands now, we need buyer that can travel there and close the deal urgent. the price is us$28.000.00.

Procedure for that is buyer settle the diplomat his balance payment after sample test of the dust. after that buyer go to refinery with my argent to smelt the dust into bars and make balance payment base on final assay test after smelting.Note that my argent can travel with the smelted gold to buyers country for balance payment once buyer can guarantee for his
safety and provide for him a return ticket.

After successful conclusion of this first trial shipment, we can have confidence and resource to do 100kg OR more CIF to buyers refinery for final assay and payment.

I will be waiting for your quick response if you are interested, note that you can still work for us as our argent if you are not gold buyer and take commission, we offer 1000$ commission on every 1kg we sale to argent.

Reply quick

John Adu

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