419 scam: Mrs Fatima Kone <konefatima2021@gmail.com> Greetings God's elect,

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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:

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 "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Fatima Kone <konefatima2021@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsfatimakoneevangelist02@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:35:53 +0100
Subject: Greetings God's elect,

Greetings God's elect,

I'm contacting you based on your good profiles I read and for a good
reasons,I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears in my eyes and
great sorrow in my heart, My Name is Mrs Fatima Kone Evangelist and am
contacting you from country Ivory Coast.I want to tell you this
because i donâ€™t have any other option than to tell you as i was
touched to open up to you, I am married to late Mr.Dave Kone who
worked with Ivory Coast embassy in France for nine years before he
died in the year 2016.

We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a
brief illness that lasted for only five days. Since his death I
decided not to remarry, When my late husband was alive he deposited
the sum of US$8.5Million.Recently,My Doctor told me that I would not
last for the period of seven months due to my cancer problem.The one
that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness.

Having known my condition I decided to hand you over this money to
take care of the less-privileged people.the money will go to charity"
people in the street and if you are interested to carry on with the
project please reply me for more details.God bless you.

Thanks for your kindness and God Bless you,
Mrs Fatima Kone Evangelist.

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