419 scam: Rama kone <rama.kone@yahoo.com.au> YOU HAVE MONEY SOMEWHERE**READ!

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

Home

About Us

Spam

419/Nigeria

Fraud

Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

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 fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- jkpagent3@yahoo.fr (Yahoo, France; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Rama kone <rama.kone@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: jkpagent3@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:37:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: YOU HAVE MONEY SOMEWHERE**READ!

Hello my Dear,
Itâ€™s true that I donâ€™t know you in person, but I want to give you important information.

I am Miss Rama kone, a tourism from Tunisia, I played an Australia Email Jackpot promotional program held in Burkina Faso, and I won the sum of $3.750 Million, surprisingly your email was attached to my lucky numbers,the paying board,paid me only 3million and they said that the sum of 750.000.00 $ + 2 laptops GiftÂ will be giving to you as the owner of the lucky Email.

I donâ€™t know if they paying board have contact you or not, here is their claiming agent contact Name and email.

Name :Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mr Bernardith Conalthe !
Email:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â jkpagent3@yahoo.fr
Tel:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â +226 77 56 86 56.

If you are interested contact him by giving him your (Name........) and your cellpone numbers..... you will receive your prize and your gift items.

Thanks
Miss Rama kone.
+226 73 48 05 83.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam