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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: "james komah" <jameskomah100@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: jms_komah@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 20:41:38 +0200
Subject: From: James Komah

(Confidential Needed)
From: James Komah
RUE: 521 Cocody Abidjan
Cote D' Ivoire West Africa.

Hello dear,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be
able to see you face to face at first. Being the only son of my father, late
Chife Maxwell Komah from Sierra- Leone Africa (WA) My father was limited
liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown Sierra-Leone before his
untimely death. After his business trip to abidjan to nagociate on a Good
Investment business he wanted to invest in abidjan.

A week after he came back from abidjan , he got an accident with my mother
of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a
private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn't know that my father
was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up the
ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. Hi my father, (MAY HIS SOUL
REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of
($12,000,000,00 Million Dollars) in a security company here in abidjan That
the money was meant for his Diamond and Gold company he wanted to establish
in abidjan though, according to my father he deposited the money in a trunk
box but declared it as vital family belongings.

He single handed me the key of the box and the deposit certificate and
instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for
my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the
security company here in abidjan also confirmed the items with most honest
and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift
this money out from abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we should
invest it in any meaningful
lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life. I
am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help me out of
my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can
discuss the modalities of this transaction.I thank you for your
understanding while i will be waiting for your immediate response.

Best regards
Yours sincerely,
James Komah.

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