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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: miss rita kone <rita.kone001@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: kone.rita@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:39:22 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM RITA KONE




FROM RITA KONE

FROM ABIDJAN IVOIRY COAST

WEST AFRICA.



Complement of the season dearest one,



I am sorry to come to you in this way,i come across your profile and my spirit lead me to chose you,well i realy needed some one honest,truthfull to share my feelings with and to share burden with and will lead me to introduce my self to you, I am MISS RITA KONE, 21 years old the only Child and daugther to late Mr and Mrs DEVID KONE. a Native of Ivory Coast in West Africa,I inherited from my late father the sum of us$10.5m,Tem Million & Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars which was Deposited in one of the leading security company here by my late father in Abidjan economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire which he wanted to used for his real estate business, before he was assassinated. He made the deposit by packaging the fund using a trunk box register as a family valuable for security reasons, Due to the situation I found myself, I have decided to invest this money in oversea or your country because of the frequent political instability and also for
security reasons and the worst part of it, is that my uncles are trying to kill me over this trunk box because I refused to hand over the documents covering the trunk box to them.



They have sold all my father's land properties which rightful belong to me and has been on my nerves to give them details on the deposited trunk box, which I refused. My life is now at stake so I ran away from my City to this Church in one of the village here in my countrty,hiding for the safety of my life.I am going to stay here till when I will leave this country.



This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement that the trunk box contains only family valueble property. This means that the security company itself does not know the exact contents of the box.My late father rgistered the Box as a family valueble property ,This is for the safety of the money insside the Box,



If you sincerely want to help me, I am going to give You 15% of the total money in the Box,After the succesfull shipment of the box to Your country. In fact, since the death of my father, my uncles chased me from the house and tried several times to affect my life and all the legal documents of property owned by my father they would of right and forced me to reveal the bank accounts of my late father by threatening to my life. I therefore give them this information and they confiscated all the bank accounts of my late father. I have no access to any money today. This makes my situation so difficult here.



That is why I decided to find someone to trust outside the country that will help me to withdraw the trunk box from the Security company and ship it to where the money will be invested.I ask you to consider my situation, be sincere and honest with me to retrieve this trunk box. Send me your full details such as your full name and address, contact telephone number, and more so that i can introduce you to the security comapny as my partner whom both of us has agreed to ship the trunk box to your destination. I will send you the full contact of the company and the documents of the deposit so that we can contact the security company for the immediate dispatch of this box for you to secure it in your country.



Once again I have decided to give You 15% of the total money,For Your assistance and effort to retrieving and transporting the Box to Your country. NOTE: I have all the necessary documents backing me up as the next of kin.



I wait for your response.



Best wishes

Miss Rita Kone.



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