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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 Lydia K Kones <lydiakipkalya20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lydiakipkalya@ymail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:54:20 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Greetings Darling One





Greetings Darling One


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 hope my mail will meet you in a good health. I got your contact from the Chamber Of Human Resources Profile Database, in my search for a trusted one. With due respect I also beg for your pardon for writting your email without your permition and to state the following few lines for your kind consideration for i am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart.


My names are is Miss Lydia Kipkalya Kones, 24yrs old female from Kenya. My father was Dr.Kipkalya Kones the former Kenyan Road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajonga, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June, 2008. You can read more about the crash through the below site: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html


After the burial of my father, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold my father's properties to a foreign expertrate 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.


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 as his next of kin, I travelled down to Burkinafaso 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 am married or present a foreigner who will help me and invest the money overseas.


Dear am contacting you personally seeking for your urgent assistance in transferring of this fund into your bank account and investment assistance in your country as my appointed trustee as the bank request, the bank said that the y must stick to my late father's instruction on the deposit of the fund and immedaitely get a helper, they shall not delay in the transfer of the fund considering my present condition over here.


Dear it is my intention to compensate you with 30% of the total fund for your kind effort and 5% for any expense that may arise from the bank after the transfer then the balance shall be my capital for the investment which you will assist me over there in your country. I have suffered lots of set back as a result of my parents death.


Please do keep this only to yourself and we keep it to ourself till the fund is sucessfully transfered 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 alone, I thank God today that am out from my country Kenya and am now in BurkinaFaso where my late father deposited the money and i have been confirmed by the bank with the documents i have at hand, in my next mail to you i will give you more datails and send you my picture.


Yours Sincerely,
Miss Lydia Kipkalya Kones


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