419 scam: mariama kone <adingra_charles@yahoo.fr> MAIL

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- mariamakone123@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mariama kone <adingra_charles@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mariama kone <mariamakone123@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:25:44 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: MAIL

Â
Â Hello dear,

I am mrs Mariama Kone.Â an old widow suffering from long time illness. am
Â currently admitted in a private hospital here in ivory coast I have some fund I inherited from my late loving husband. Dr. Benjamin Michael Kone, the sum of two million eight hundred thousand dollars (U.S. $
Â 2.800.000.00) which he deposited in one of the famous bank , and i want to donate these fund to you, please use the 70 percent% of the these fund to help the poor privilege,Â once, widows in society and 30% percent of the total
Â fund will be for your personal use to support your family .

Please, kindly use these fund for humanitarian work as I have instructed. due to my late husband ask me to donate these fund to the less privilege before he passed
Â away but i ignored him, and ever since then i have been having a terrible nightmares and bad dreams encounter with my late husband because of the fund which i refused to give out.

right now am in a Critical Condition and my doctor said that i have more 2 weeks to live because of my cancer illness.
Please, if you would be able to use these fund for humanitarian work, as I have directed kindlyÂ reply me immediately.

below is the information needed from you to enable me introduce you to the bank where the fund is.

your full names
your Address
Â occupation
age
your phone number

i'm writing you with the help ofÂ my nurse in the hospital miss rosemarry,

reply me with this Email; mariamakone123@yahoo.com

remain blessed
Your sister in the Lord
Â mariama kone.

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