24-Hour African Gold
Transaction Risk Assessment
Independent first-stage review of an African gold transaction before payment, travel, or commitment. Submit your documents and seller details, and receive a written risk assessment within 24 hours. Fixed fee, no commissions.
Best for buyers, investors, traders, and companies who have received documents or payment requests and need a fast independent assessment before deciding whether to proceed.
Use this service when you have received a gold offer and need to know quickly whether it is worth pursuing. It is the right first step when a seller has sent you documents, an assay certificate, export paperwork, a payment request, or transaction details, and you want an independent read before you respond, travel, or send any money.
It is designed to be fast and affordable, so that no buyer ever has reason to skip the most important step in a transaction: an independent check before any payment is made.
Company registration, export paperwork, assay certificates, and licence references, checked for internal consistency.
Seller, exporter, and any brokers involved, including their claimed authority to act on the transaction.
Payment requests, pricing against the world market rate, delivery path, and how the deal is set up.
Known scam patterns, manufactured urgency, communication history, and inconsistencies across the documents.
Each assessment is structured around document consistency, counterparty credibility, transaction structure, payment risk, and whether key claims can be independently verified. We review the internal consistency of the documents, checking whether the claims they make agree with one another and whether they can be confirmed against an external source. We identify known fraud patterns, assess how the deal is structured, and flag the specific points that would require deeper verification before the transaction should proceed. The assessment draws on direct field experience in African physical gold markets, so it reflects how these transactions and the frauds around them actually work in practice.
A written risk assessment delivered within 24 hours, setting out the key findings drawn from the documents and details provided, the red flags identified and explained in plain terms, a clear risk rating, and a recommendation: proceed, pause, request further verification, or disengage. You can see the format and depth of our written work on the sample report page.
This is a remote first-stage assessment. It does not physically verify gold, confirm chain of custody, or replace on-ground due diligence where physical material or in-country verification is required. Where the deal calls for that, the assessment will say so and point you to the right next step.
Need physical verification? If the deal requires independent testing, chain-of-custody control, or in-country verification, see our On-Ground Verification and Independent Gold Testing & Assay Oversight services.
The patterns that most often surface at this stage include advance fees framed as taxes or clearance charges, assay certificates from laboratories with no record of issuing them, export licences that do not appear in the relevant registry, prices set well below the world market rate, and pressure to pay before any independent check can be made. For deeper background, see our guides on how African gold scams work and the red flags buyers should check before payment.
If your transaction is significant or progressing toward payment, the next stage is Transaction Verification & Risk Assessment, a fuller investigation that contacts issuing authorities and laboratories directly. Where physical material or testing is involved, see On-Ground Verification and Independent Gold Testing & Assay Oversight.
Submit Your Deal for Review
Send us the seller details, documents, country, and transaction stage. We will return an independent written risk assessment within 24 hours.
Fixed fee: USD 300
Submit Your Deal for Review →See full pricing or view a sample report.