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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 komoh <vivian_komoh@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: v_komoh@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:46:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM Mrs Vivian Komoh


West Africa,
Cote d'Ivoire,
Abidjan.

Dearest One

With due humility and sincerelity, I suppose this
proposal must come to you as a surprise since we've
not met before and have any kind of correspondence
based on this.Well as faith would have it,I got your
contact through a reliable source and after praying
and due consideration I decided to pick on you so
don't be so upset.

I'm Mrs. VIVIAN KOMOH,the youngest and last wife of
Chief JOHNSON KOMOH,whom was suspected to be poisoned
to death by one of his businss associates.Before his
death he was one of the top wealthiest cocoa export
merchant corporation based in Cote D'Ivoire.He called
me alone at his bed side before his untimely death in
a private hospial and disclosed to me about some
valuable documents(which is in my possesion right
now)concerning certain deposit he made with one
private seurity company involving a total sum of ten
million united states dollars($10 million us)with some
precious stones.It was deposited in a trunk boxe
as a family valuables and the original copy of the
gold/diamond license that belongs to my father is also
included inside the boxe for safekeeping.

He tried and explained to me that he deposited the
money purposely for safekeeping and anticipating of
investing it in a foreign country later.That he never
declayed it as money but as family valuables and I was
made the next of kin to the deposit.He also told me
that,it's because of his wealth that he was poisoned
by one of his business partners.And that I should seek
for a foreign partner in any country of my choice
that'll help me to retrieve and transfer the deposit
abroad.

Why I contacted you now is that I want this deposit to
be transfered out of here as soon as possible.Right
now almost all my husbands properties are being
consficated by his relatives and the elder wives
because I was the youngest and the last wife.As if
that's not enough they're still mounting a lot of
pressure and even threatening me because I think
they're suspecting that I must be keeping something
out of them.As a result I urgently needed a foreign
partner,somebody who must acknowledge my dilemma and
willingly assist and help me in the following ways
1,To assist and help me in retrieving this boxe from
the security company and transfer it into your
foreign or provided account.
2,To act as my guidian and overseer and also help me
to invest this money in any profitable business
venture because I have a very little knowledge in
business.
3,To make an arrangement for me to come over to your
country to resettle and establish my life once more.
4,To help me and locate a gold/diamond merchant
that'll buy the lincense.

However I expect you to tell me your required
percentage for helping and assisting me.But please try
and keep everything concerning this transfer very
confidential for security reasons.And if you're ready
and willing to assist me in retrieving this
deposit,please kindly reach me back immediately with
the above email address,so that I can furnish you with
the entire the details.

Thanks for your corperation and remain blessed.

Best regards,
Mrs. Vivan Komoh













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