419 scam: Williams Kone <selmabachirr@gmail.com> Mr.Williams Kone

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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:
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a next of kin 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.
- willianskone1@mail.ru (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Williams Kone <selmabachirr@gmail.com>
Reply-To: konewilliams@mail.ru
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:01:33 +0000
Subject: Mr.Williams Kone

Attention Please,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it's just my
urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this
transaction. I am a banker by profession from Togo Lome in west Africa
and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting
unit of the bank.I have the opportunity of transfering the left over
funds ($18.6million) of one my bank clients who died along with his
entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash.You can confirm the
genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be
shared between us in the ratio of 50/50 while 10% will be mapped out
for expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further details of
the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return
mail,have a great day.

Make sure you keep this transaction as your top secret and make it
confidential till we receives the fund into the account that you will
provide to the bank. donÂ¢t disclose it to any body, because the
secrecy of this transaction is as well as the success of it.contact me
from more detals (willianskone1@mail.ru
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Williams Kone

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