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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: Vivian Abba <vivian00abba@live.fr>
Reply-To: vivian11abba@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:26:37 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM VIVINA ABBA


>From Miss Vivian Abba,

How are you today, i hope fine? I am a female student from University of Cote d'lvoire.

I am 22yrs old. I will love to have a long-term relationship with you and to know more about you. I would like to build up a solid foundation with you in time coming if you can be able to help me in this project.I have some fund of Seven Million Eight Hundred Thousand united states dollars ($7.800.000.00) which my late Father Deposited for me here in Abidjan Cote d'lvoire as his next of kin before he died. I want you to help me delivering my inheritance money into your country for investment purposes on these areas:

1).Transport industry
2). Five star hotel
3). Real Estate
4). company

If you can be of an assistance to me, I will be pleased to offer to you 30% Of the total fund.

I will be humbly waiting your soonest response Plesae try and keep this to yourself

Thanks.

Vivian Abba

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