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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 Kipkalya <ajara.kipkalya@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:25:06 +0000
Subject: CRYING FOR HELP PLEASE HELP ME


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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 ($5.800.000.00USD) 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.kipkalya@yahoo.fr. ) to enable me give you the bank contact
information and my late father’s statement account 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 you
Ajara Kipkalya.

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