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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: "ajara.kipkaya@yahoo.com" <ajara.kipkaya@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:12:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Thanks and God bless you


Dear Sir/Madam,
  Permit me to inform you my heart desire,I wish to contact you personally for urgent assistance,long term relationship and business investment in your Country, i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important issue, I am in search of reliable person  who  will  stand as my Foreign Trustee over the transfer of my inherited money.
I need someone who will care and love me right from the heart, I am in pain and severe pressure which is beyond my control  since the death of my parents. I am pleading with you to come and save me out from this mess befall on me. I need your maximum support to get what belongs to me secured. I believe through your kind assistance we can build a very strong relationship that must be beneficial for both of us.
As it may interest you to know who I am, well my name is Ajara Kipkalya, 21 yrs old female (single) and I’m from Kenya in East Africa. My father was the former Kenyan Road Minister.Him and his 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. The plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June, 2008.You can read more about the news through the below link:http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html
So, after the burial of my father, family  crisis  started in our home, my   Step-mother and Uncle had a conspiracy and sold my father's properties to an Italian Expert rate which they selfishly shared the money among themselves and left me and my only 14 yrs brother to suffer.
My Step-mother even threatened  to kill me when she found out  that one of My Daddy’s closest friend I know  revealed  to  me about  a huge inheritance funds deposited to  my name  by my late Father for long time before his death. And I took the  advice of my Daddy’s  friend to transfer out this funds to a foreign account where it will be secured, but when my Step-mother noticed this plan ,she tried to collect the document of the funds but i refused to show her the statement of the account as she and my wicked uncle have already succeeded in claiming all my father's properties left behind.
They continuously mal-treating me badly, they have made life very unbearable to me and my little brother so that I can release the document to them. Honestly, for the divine mercy of God, I was saved from the wicked plan of my Step-mother, some day one of my Step- Mother's daughter secretly whispered to me not to eat a delicious (Rice) prepared by her mother, I didn’t even know that I was targeted to be poisoned to death, but God used her own daughter to save my life. In fact, the truth of  the matter  was that when the meal  was  put to the (waste- bin) only to find out in the following  morning  that two big rats  died in the waste-bin  as a result of eating the poisoned  rice  and that made me to ran away immediately from my country (Kenya) to (Burkina Faso)because of her threaten   to killed me.
I traveled down to Burkina Faso where My Daddy deposited the money during the time he was serving our country and I had discussed with the bank managing Director to make withdrawal of the total money  to  get  a  better life, so  I can take care of me and my brother in order to start a new life all over again, on my arrival,the Bank Managing Director  whom I met in person told me that my father's instruction in his will was the fund would only be released to me when I present a Foreign Trustee who would help me and invest the money overseas on our behalf. Presently I’m in the refugee camp under the ministry of Rev.Anthony in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Refugee mission camp, United Nation High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR) here in Burkina Faso.
However, the deposited fund is ($7.800.000.00USD) Million United State Dollars. With due respect i seek your assistance for the following reasons below:1. To stand as my Foreign Trustee for proper management of the funds.2. After the transfer, locate a good school to continue my studies in the Western World, so also my only brother.3. To invest the money in profitable business in your country for future better life.
I am ready to offer you 40% of the total money for your kind assistance. Please let I am Looking forward for your positive  reply through  my private  email address below:(ajara.kipkaya@yahoo.com) to enable me give you the bank contact information and other details  of the funds which you will use as my TRUSTEE to apply for the transfer  release  to your bank account.
Thanks and God bless youAjara Kipkalya

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