419 scam: King Rita <ritasister1@gmail.com> URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a orphan scam.
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.
- ritaritaking1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: King Rita <ritasister1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: King Rita <ritaritaking1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:35:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Â URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

My name is Rita King I am 19 years old the only child of late Mr Daniel King from a country called TOGO REPUBLIC in West Africa ,my mother died when I was still small and since then my father took me so special because I was his only child.My father was a very rich man here in this country during his days ,He was a dealer of Gold business and has a lot of landed properties here , but it is sad to tell you about the sudden death of my father , His family brothers poison him to death because they where envy of his wealth, My father suffered the poison illness for 7days at the hospital and letter died , before the death of my father at the hospital He told me about some money $3,500.000.00 Three million and five hundred thousand united sate dollars which he deposited in a bank with my name as the next of Kin. dear I have all the documents of the deposit with me here now , after the burial of my father His family members seize all his properties and business and left nothing for me , all that remains for me now is only this money at the bank.

but because of this money they started planning how to Assassinate me so that they will take the deposit documents and claim the money at the bank,so when i discover their evil plan against my life I ran away from our home and now am hiding out in a church refugee Camp in village here so that my life will be save .please save my life from this wicked people ,I want you to help me claim this money out from the bank and transfer it to your account so that I will come over to your country and stay with you and your family and continue my education again , this is why I contacted you for the first time, I need your urgent help now to come out of this situation ,I am going through a difficult situation here now ,I am really tired of staying here without parents and no rest of mind ,please help me , and if you read this massage and you are touched in heart to help me out from this situation reply me back immediately so that I can give you more details about everything , I am waiting to hear from you as soon as possible on this Email address ritaritaking1@yahoo.co.uk .

My best regards to your family members.
Yours Truly
Rita King ,

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