419 scam: Linkes Linkes <linkes.linkes@ssummail.com> From Ester Clement

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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:

The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "death certificate" (this phrase is often used in inheritance scams such as next of kin or https://www.419scam.org/419-murdered-businessman.htm">orphan scams. )
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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.
- clester200@yahoo.co.jp (Yahoo, Japan; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Linkes Linkes <linkes.linkes@ssummail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 08:19:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Ester Clement

>From Ester Clement

Dear Sir

With Respect I come to you, I am sorry if you will fill bad about my sending this mail to you as you donâ€™t know me, please forgive me and give attention to help me out of what I am leaving on as a life, today internet have be come an easy way for contacting people due some people used it to scam people making thing heard to some other once but I am happy about one thing that it is truth that can save one.

I have something that is troubling me and I have no way out of it without your help and this is why I run or came to you to save me as my God. I fined deposit slip receipt of $9.700.000.00 that my father deposited (Fixed Deposit) with one bank here in Abidjan Cote D` Iviore. My late father was a Cocoa Merchant for years, I think there he made the money.

I want to the bank for some confirmations and the bank manager told me that the money is there in a fixed deposit and for me to have the money that I should get a letter from the high court as the next of king of the funds and a death certificate of my late father and the money will be transferred to the next of the kings account.

Now that I have decide to leave the country to your country where I will spend all my life, I prayed and decide to contact you for your help to get this money transferred into your account as the next of king of this fund so that I meet you there.

Thanks for giving time to my mail and I will be happy to hear from you. Please kindly reply through this email address, clester200@yahoo.co.jp God bless you.

Yours truly,

Miss Ester Clement.

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