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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: alicia.kipkalya@ig.com.br
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:50:09 -0200
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME FOR GOD SAKE




Greetings My Dearest One

Really I know it will be a surprise to receive a letter like this from
an unknown person, please if for any reason you find this mail
offensive you can ignore it and do accept my apology for any
inconvenience it may have cost you to read. I hope my mail will meet
you in a good health. I contacted you after going through your profile
and my prayers over it in my search for a trusted one. With due
respect I also beg for your pardon for writing your email without your
permition and to state the following few lines for your kind
consideration for i am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow
from my heart.

My name is Miss Alicia Kipkalya Kones, 24yrs old female from Kenya. My
father was Hon.Dr.Kipkalya Kones 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 Kajonga, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on the
Tuesday 10th, June, 2008. You can read more about the crash with the
link below: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/ [1] WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.
crash/index.html

My predicaments started after the death of my father. After the burial
of my father, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold my father's
properties to foreign expertrate which they shared the money among
themselves and left nothing for me. I lost my mother long time ago,
and since then i have been through hard times in the hands of my step
mother, it has been so tough and sufferings for me since the death of
my late parents.

Before my father's death, he told me that he made a fixed deposit of
the sum of Seven Million Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
(USD$7,200.000.00) in one of the Banks here in Burkina Faso, with my
name
the beneficiary, I travelled down to Burkina Faso and confirmed his
statement positively from the bank. But on my arrival to the bank, the
Bank Director who I meet in person told me that my father's
instruction to their bank was that the money would only be release to
me when I am married or when i present a foreigner who will help me
and invest the money overseas.

Please i have decided to contact you, personally seeking for your
urgent
assistance in transferring of my inheritance fund into your bank
account and also for investment assistance in your country as my
appointed trustee as the bank request, the bank said that they must
keep to my late father's instruction on the deposit of the fund and
immediately get a foreign partner who will assist me, they shall not
delay in the transfer of the fund considering my present condition
over here.

please consider my condition and assist me as it is my intention
to compensate you with 30% of the total fund for your kind effort,
then the balance shall be my capital for the investment which you will
advice and assist me over there in your country. I have suffered lots
of set back as a result of my parents death and am counting on you to
rescue me from my present condition here over here and give me a
better living with my inheritance fund over there in your country.

Please do keep this only to yourself till the fund is successfully
transferred to you. I beg you not to disclose it till i come over
because I am afraid of my wicked stepmother who has threatened to kill
me and have the money to herself, I am lucky today that am out from my
country Kenya and i am now in Burkina Faso where my late father
deposited the money and i have been confirmed by the bank with the
documents i have at hand for the transfer, after i receive your reply,
in my next mail to you i will give you more details and send you my
picture.

Please reply me to this address ( ALICIAKIPKALYA40@GMAIL.COM  )

I am waiting to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely
Miss Alicia Kipkalya



Links:
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[1]
https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2008%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFqD6jzp_tnM6mZ3E0zRACQnwIVUQ

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