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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Alimata Sawadogo" <alimata.sawadogokipkalya@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alimata.sawadogokip@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:07:14 +0800
Subject: Please i need your help,

Greetings My Dear Friend,

My name is Miss Alimata Sawadogo , 25yrs old single female never married, I’m from Kenya in East Africa. My father was the former Kenyan road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong, in western Kenya. I lost my father on that day faithful day, Secondly because of the political crisis and bomb explosions with kidnapping from the rebels in Africa, Mostly what happened at the university on the date 02 April 2015, Somali militants burst into a university in eastern Kenya on Thursday and killed nearly 150 students, In Nigeria More than 300 girls were kidnapped students girls are still missing by the Boko Haram bad stories every day by day ,I am afraid to continue my life and studies in Kenya ,Please I need your help to take me out from here to a better place where I will settle and study, I am now in a nearby country call Burkina Faso (West Africa) through the help of the United Nations, peace keeping committee that visited Kenya.



I am contacting you because I want you to stand as my guardian and Trustee in the management of a sum of $3.2 Million u.s dollars that my late father left for me before he died. I am the only Child and I am ever ready to offer you 30% for your kind assistant in receiving these fund from the bank also you will invest the fund , Mostly you will recommend a good university where I will continue my studies; I will give you more details and the reply from the bank on my arrival here to find how the fund can be release to me as the next of Kin, Already I have been in communication with the bank through email before coming Burkina Faso, I have presented the documents with me to the bank, I am now in A mission refugee camp here in Burkina Faso to hide myself and wait for the transfer, I hope you will read and understand my present situation also I pray God will touch your heart to help me out from here , Please take me as part of your family or your daughter, the fund is legally deposited also will be legally transferred to your bank account, I will send my passport as soon as I read from you indicating your seriousness in helping me out from here to a better place where I will start a new life and complete my studies, Sincerely Yours,Miss Alimata Sawadogo. Please send reply to this Email:( alimata.sawadogokip@yahoo.ca) for more details. 

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