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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:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- 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.
- email-musagoldbusiness@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Alhaji Musa <musagoldbusiness@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 01:54:24 +0000
Subject: KMR GOLD
GOOD DAY DEAR
I am the secretaire commercial of local community miners association
located in west Africa mali,we control 87 local community mining under
37 local government area in different part of the state,we mine
between 10 -50KG of gold nuggets mothly.The gold nuggets are smelted
into gold bars of 1kg specification each at $36000/KG
Our gold is usually 22.39+ Carats, PURITY 97.999% which is refined
into 24 Carats,99.99% PURITY in buyers refinery and also we work with
(KMR Refinery Bamako) Commission $3000 per every Kilo the buyer will
buy from seller side to agent
Kindly contact me privately if yiu are interested or have interested
buyers for long term relationship contact us on email or WhatsApp +223
84 81 94 32. Email-musagoldbusiness@gmail.com
Cordialy
Alhaji Musa
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