419 scam: "Miss Alimata Sawadogo Kipkalya" <mark@woodlandsnet.co.za> Please i need your help.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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.
- alimata.sawadogokipkalya@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Alimata Sawadogo Kipkalya" <mark@woodlandsnet.co.za>
Reply-To: alimata.sawadogokipkalya@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:14:23 +0200 (SAST)
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 Kenya, 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 Haramas 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.

Please read more from the website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7446832.stm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/nairobi-nairobi-area-ke/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022586/Masked-gunmen-launch-attack-morning-prayers-Kenyan-university.html

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 in your company, 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
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
photos and 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 .Pls
send reply to( alimata.sawadogokipkalya@gmail.com )

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