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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Lydia K Kones <lydiakipkalya01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 16:45:18 +0100
Subject: Greetings To You My Dear One


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Greetings To You My Dear One =C2=A0
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With due respect, i want you to spare little of your time and carefully
read my mail because i am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow
from my heart. Please if for any reason you find this mail offensive you
can ignore it and do accept my apology for any inconvenience it may have
cost you to read. I contact you after going through your profile and my
prayers over it in my search for a honest and trusted one for help. My name
is Miss Lydia Kipkalya Kones, 24years old female from Kenya. I am the only
daughter of Hon Dr. Kipkalya Kones the former Kenyan Road Minister who died
in a plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June, 2008. You can read more about
the crash with the link below:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html
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My predicaments started after the death of my father. After the burial
of my father, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold my father's
properties to foreign expert rate which they shared the money among
themselves and left nothing for me. I lost my mother long time ago, and
since then i have been through hard times in the hands of my step mother,
it has been so tough and sufferings for me since the death of my late
parents. Before my father's death, he told me that he made a fixed deposit
of the sum of Seven Million Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
($7.200.000.00) in one of the Banks here in Burkina Faso, with my name the
beneficiary, I traveled down to Burkina Faso and confirmed his statement
positively from the bank. But on my arrival to the bank, the Bank Director
who I meet in person told me that my father's instruction to their bank was
that the money would only be release to me when i present a foreign trustee
who will assist me in the transfer process and also for the investment of
the fund oversea
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I decide to contact you personally seeking for your urgent assistance i=
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transferring of my inheritance fund into your bank account and also for
investment assistance in your country as my appointed trustee as the bank
request, the bank said that they must keep to my late father's instruction
on the deposit of the fund and immediately get a foreign partner who will
assist me, they shall not delay in the transfer of the fund considering my
present condition over here. I have suffered lots of set back as a result
of my parents death and am counting on you to rescue me from my present
condition here over here and give me a better living over there in your
country. At the success of the fund transfer in your account, I decide
offering you 30% of the total funds for your kind help. I will be waiting
for your urgent reply so that i will send you more details regarding the
transfer.
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Please do keep this only to yourself till the fund is successfully
transferred to you. I beg you not to disclose it till i come over because I
am afraid of my wicked stepmother who has threatened to kill me and have
the money to herself, I am lucky today that am out from my country Kenya
and am now in Burkina Faso where my late father deposited the money and i
have been confirmed by the bank with the documents i have at hand for the
transfer, after i receive your reply, in my next mail to you i will give
you more details and send you my picture. =C2=A0I am waiting your urgent
respond.
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Yours sincerely
Lydia Kipkalya

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