419 scam: Chief Benson <chiefbenson7@gmail.com> Gold Dust and Gold bars 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.

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The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
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From: Chief Benson <chiefbenson7@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Chief Benson <chiefbenson6@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:14:37 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Gold Dust and Gold bars for sale.

Gold Dust and Gold bars for sale.

We are representatives of the local gold miners here in Cote Dâ€™Ivoire West Africa. We have the capacity of producing between 50 -250 kilos of Gold dust /Bar Below are the current available Commodity Gold Bars

QUANTITY GOLD: 250kgs
ORIGIN : Cote Dâ€™Ivoire (West Africa)
QUALITY: 24+ karats
PURITY: 99.05% or better
FORM:Â Gold Bar
PRICE: $28,500 per Kilo.

Terms and conditions: In as much as we intend to establish a cordial business relationship with you, Interested buyer will have to arrange and come down to Cote Dâ€™Ivoire for inspection on our products, take a random sample for test at the government geological survey department, having been
satisfy with the assay report, buyer / seller will then sign (sales and purchase contract / agreement).

We shall be grateful to furnish you with any further information that you may require after hearing from you and shall consider it a privilege
entering long-lasting relationship between both parties.

NB; If interested buyer will not be able to come down to Cote Dâ€™Ivoire for inspection on our products, he/she can be sent a trial order of 50-100kg for
assay test and payment after testing that the gold is in perfect good state and quality.

Thanks for your understanding while I wait for your urgent responds.
Best regards,
Chief Benson

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