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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 Rama Djirama Kones <djiramakones@gmail.com>
Reply-To: djirama.kones@yandex.com
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 18:58:07 +0000
Subject: Hello My Beloved One

Hello Dear,

I am writing this mail to you with tears. With due respect, trust and
humanity, i appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read
through my letter, i wish to contact you personally for a long term
business relationship and investment assistance in your Country. Well
due to unsolicited nature of my situation here in Refugee camp
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso i decided to contact you for help. I have
passed through pains and sorrowful moment since the death of my
parents. My names are Miss Rama Djirama Kones. I held from Kenya in
East Africa. My Mother was the former Kenyan Roads Minister Kipkalya
Kones 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 Kajong’a, 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 mother, my mother nephew and uncle conspired
and sold my mother’s property to an Italian Expert rate which they
shared the money among themselves. I am constrained to contact you
because of the abuse I am receiving from my wicked uncle. They planned
to take away all my late mother’s treasury and properties from me
since the unexpected death of my beloved Mother. Meanwhile i wanted to
escape to the United States of America, but they hide away my
international passport and other valuable traveling documents. Luckily
they did not discover where i kept my mother’s File which contains
important documents. So I decided to run to the refugee camp where i
am presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission
for the Refugee here in Ouagadougou, Republic of Burkina Faso.

One faithful morning, I opened my mother’s box and found out the
documents which she has deposited huge amount of money in a bank with
my name as the next of kin. I traveled to Burkina Faso to withdraw the
money for a better life so that I can take care of myself and start a
new life, but on my arrival, the Bank Director whom I met in person
told me that my mother’s instruction/WILL to the bank is that the
money would only be release to me when I am married or present a
trustee who will help me and invest the money overseas. I have chosen
to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray
my trust but rather take me as your own sister or daughter. I have
prayed for an honest and reliable person who will help me and stand as
my trustee so that I will present the person to the Bank for transfer
of the money to his bank account overseas. Although, you may wonder
why I am so soon revealing myself to you without knowing you, well I
will say that my mind convinced me that you may be the true person to
help me. More so, my mother of blessed memory deposited the sum of
(US$8.5m) Dollars in a Bank with my name as the next of kin.

However, I shall forward to you the necessary documents on
confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer and
statement of the fund in your country. As soon as I receive your
positive response showing your interest I will give you further
details on what next to do. In the light of the above, I shall
appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness
to handle this transaction sincerely. I beg you not to disclose it
till i come over, because I am afraid of my wicked uncle that
threatened to kill me, I thank God today that am out from my country
(KENYA) but now In (Burkina Faso) where my mother deposited these
money with my name as the next of Kin.
Get back to me for more details
Yours Sincerely,
Miss Rama Djirama Kones.

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