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We Look Forward in Doing a Long Lasting Business Transaction With You

Take a look at this scintillating offer that just landed in our e-mail box:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are small scale gold miners here on the sub region of West Africa. We have some huge quantity of alluvial gold dust for sale at a considerable price which is below world market price. If you are interested, do not hesitate to get back to us as soon as possible for us to give you our co-operate offer. We have 450 KG of Alluvial Gold dust for sale.

The offer below: Commodity: Gold dust (AU)
Origin: Burkina- Faso
Quantity: 450 KG
Quality: 22 carat +
Purity: 92,31%
$11.500(FOB)

For more details you can call us on this number or contact email: We look forward in doing a long lasting business transaction with you

Best Regards.
franck.gbedji@gmail.com

Sounds too good to be true, right? Lets find out just how good. According to a handy precious metals calculator we found on the Web, 450 kilograms of 22 carat gold is worth more than $12 million.

Franck Gbedji is nothing if not generous. A $12 million return on an $11 thousand investment is probably outrageous enough to make even Bernie Madoff blush, and we certainly hope none of the countless thousands of people who've received this ludicrous solicitation are naïve—or desperate—enough to fall for this classic 419 scam.

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