419 scam: Sambo SALIFOU <barri.kanfando1@yahoo.com> Please assist me to establish an industry in your country

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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:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
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.
- sambo.salifou@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sambo SALIFOU <barri.kanfando1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sambo.salifou@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 07:06:21 +0100
Subject: Please assist me to establish an industry in your country

Please assist me to establish an industry in your country

Dear potential partner
I am Sambo Salifou, the federal auditor from Burkina Faso. I discovered the sum of Ten million, five hundred thousand us dollars in our bank, unclaimed, it was one of the funds launched in by the political regime of our formal president who ran away November 2014, leaving the country for interim government. This fund has been laying unclaimed till now, I have seized all documents concerning the fund, and now I want to transfer it out through your account, for establishment of an industry in your country. So if you are interested then I will also give you the 30% of the fund. if you are interested please reply me to this email ( sambo.salifou@yahoo.com ) I will require from you the following details:-
(1) Your name in full.
(2) Your full residential address.
(3) Your occupation.
(4) Your City.
(5) Your Country of origin.
(6) Your Mobile phone.
(7) Your age.
(8) Your marital status.

Sincerely,
Sambo Salifou +226 6923 6406

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