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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: Esther Kones <estherkones01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: estherkones@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:43:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I am pleased to write You



Hello Dear,
Good day to you and compliments of the day,honestly I am so please to write you today as it is an expression of my condition that ledme in writing you beliving that you will find favourable to attend to me and thank you for the opportunity. I am glad today as i find it favourable to commmunicate with you through this medium and there are some reason that i have come to you and i wish you will honour my words as you will find it favourable in the sight of humanity and God to offer me this support, My full name is Esther Kipkalya Kones, i am from Kenya and 25 years old. I am a daughter of the former Kenyan road minister late Mr Kipkalya Kones who died on Tuesday 10th June 2008 along the Cessna 210 plane crash which was heading to Kericho in a remote area called Kajonga in western Kenya as You can read more on the crash below:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html

Although we are just getting to know each other closely but please consider this as a divine wish and accept me with a better understanding,I believe you have come to me at the right time to share a good life with me because i am very lonely where i am now. My way of life is simple and i need a partner because i feel this is the righ to make my own home since my parents is late,I just need your honest attention in this relationship we are tryiing to build since you have no children and consider me like your half part,a soul mate you can lay trust on perharps your closest friend even if you want us to marry,i am willing with all pleasure. Honestly i am writing this mail with tears and sorrow from my heart due to the condition this tragic experience has laid me and i prayed to GOD for his divine intervention to enbale me continue life and finish my acedmic career.


I have chosen you to be my best companion and my prayers is that God will give you a kind and honest heart to see my through this trials and i am convinced in the spirit that you will be the epitome of true love God has chosen to rescue me from this trouble as a true friend and i would equally want you to be my trustee to reclaim my inheritance and i believe that with you i will accompish this successfully. I have this money confirmed in the bank and it's just about $7.2 million my late father deposited in his bank account and the directors whom i met as i we had delibration over this and the requested for a foreign trustee to guarrantee the saftey of this fund which is in their records as unclaimed bill in my father's account and i have the death certificate and the deposit certificate of the fund stating proof of my geneuity.

I need you as my life trustee for us to reclaim this heritage as we will live happiness as husband and wife in one family in as much as you could help from your heart to make this goal a reality. I wait upon your positive response in respect to to your ability to stand for me in this situation and attached are my pictures for your perusal. I shall appreciate your willingness to help me with an equal mind in achieving this successfully with a better details about yourself ok,thanks and God bless you as i look forward to seeing your reply.

Yours Sincerely
Miss Esther Kipkalya


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