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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: Aracelis Kipkalya <araceliskipkal@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:42:30 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Hello Dearest One

Hello Dearest One
Permit me to inform you my heart desire, I wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship and investment assistance in your Country.

I am Aracelis Kipkalya, 24yrs old female ( never married ) 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. The plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June, 2008.

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 had a conspiracy and sold my father's properties to an Italian Expertrate which they selfishly shared the money among themselves and leave me only to suffered.

However, I inherited from my late father the sum of ($5.800.000.00USD) Million United State Dollars which is currently deposited in the bank here Burkina Faso.

My Step-mother wants to kill me because I didn’t accept her to sit on my inheritance. Because of her attempt to killed me, 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, 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 release to me when I present a Foreign Trustee who would help me and invest the money overseas.

With due respect i seek your assistance in the following reasons below:
1. To stand as my Foreign Trustee.
2. After the transfer, locate a good school in your country for me.
3. To invest the money into a good lucrative business.

Looking forward to your kind reply enable me give you the bank contact information and my late father bank account details which you will use as my TRUSTEE to apply for the transfer.
Thanks and God bless you
Aracelis Kipkalya

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