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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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Fraud email example:

From: Miss Amina Kipkalya <amina.k.koncx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:04:16 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: This Message Is Respectfully Yours


Hello Dearest One,

This letter might come to you as a surprise , Please, I appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter because i feel quite safe dealing with you in person, with due respect, trust and humanity, with pains, tears and sorrow from my heart, strongly believing in God Al-Mighty, that you will consider my letter and help me and also benefit from me, having gone through your remarkable e-mail address from googledatabase, I will really like to have a good relationship with you and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you, I decided to contact you, due to the urgency of my situation, my name is Amina Kipkalya Kones, 24yrs old female (single) and 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 board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong'a, in western Kenya. You can read more about the
crash through the below site:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html

After the burial of my father, my Step Mother and uncle conspired and sold my father's property which they shared the money among themselves and live nothing for me. One faithful morning, I opened my father's briefcase and found out the documents which he had deposited huge amount of money in one bank in Burkina Faso with my name as the next of kin. i traveled to Burkina Faso and had a discussion with Bank Managing Director to make some withdrawal of the money for a better life, so i can take care of myself and start a new life again, the Bank Managing Director whom i met in person told me that my father's instruction in his will was the inheritance money would only be release to me when i present a Reliable Foreign Trustee who would help me and invest the money overseas. I am in search of a honest and reliable person who will help me and stand as my foreign trustee so that I will present him to the Bank for transfer of the money to his account overseas.
I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust.

You may wonder why I am so soon revealing myself to you without knowing you, to me, I will say that my spirit and mind convinced me that you may be the true person to help me, I will like to disclose much to you if you can help me to relocate to your country because my step mother have threaten many times to assassinate me due to her wickedness and jealousy. I inherited from my late father USD$21.800.000.00M (Twenty One Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)

You will also help me to place the money in a more profitable business venture in your Country. However, you will help by recommending a nice University in your country so that I can complete my studies. As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will inform the bank that am ready to present the foreign trustee who will receive the fund on my behalf. I am a Christian and I believe in God. Please do keep this only to your self for now until the bank will transfer the fund. I beg you not to disclose it till I come over because I am afraid of my stepmother who has threatened to kill me and have the money alone ,I thank God Today that am out from my country (KENYA) but now In (Burkina Faso) where my father deposited these money with my name as the next of Kin.
I sent this e-mail to you in Rev Father office computer,so after reading,if you are willing to handle the transaction,please call me with Rev Father office telephone No: +226 752 797 95
Thanks for your patient and understanding hope to hear from you.
Remain Blessed
Yours Sincerely,
Amina

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