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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: "Dr. Aisha Muammar Al-Gathafi" <draishagaddmua@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:56:49 -0700
Subject: Hello


Good Day sir| madam



Assalamualaikum Makhmudov I'm Dr. Aisha Gaddafi, Former Goodwill Ambassador
of the U.N. and the daughter of late Muammar Al-Gaddafi the former
president of Libya i have an issues i want to discuss with you.

I'm Dr. Aisha (Ayesha) Gaddafi, Former Goodwill Ambassador of the U.N. and
the daughter of late Muammar Al-Gaddafi the former president of Libya.
About issues I wanted to discuss with you, I will please want you to listen
very carefully and keep this very confidential (SECRET) to just yourself
alone if we work this out with care, we will be so glad.

I am currently residing in Oman at the moment with my step mother and other
siblings, unfortunately in confinement because a travel ban has been placed
on me and I have to go through a lot everyday, and at the meantime, my
family is at risk and pains. 95% of our investments and bank accounts in
several countries are freeze.

I received a mail from a bank about some funds that where deposited by my
late father on this day (July 23rd 2009) in one of his visits to Ghana. and
now I have been called upon to come and make the claim it that I have to
come for the funds but now I can't because of the travel ban placed on me,
and fear of the UN, NATO and Libyan Government, who are trying all their
best to track down all my family wealth and leave me in a helpless position.

Here is how all our account have been frozen on this link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/27/gaddafi-family-assets-frozen-queen
.

I don't want them to be aware of this particular fund deposited by my
father abroad. If you can be of any assistant to me kindly get back to me
so that I can furnish you with the deposit details for verification and
confirmation. I am willing to reward you bountiful 25% of the total sum, we
are talking about 11 million USD.

I have been commissioned to contact an interested foreign investor/partner
who will be able to take absolute control of part of the vast cash
available to private account for a possible investment in your country.

If this transaction interests you, you don’t have to disclose it to anybody
because of what is going with my entire family, if the western nation
happens to know this account, they will freeze it as they froze others so
keep this transaction for yourself only until we finalize this transaction
that will be when the fund is transferred into your account. I want to
transfer this money into your account immediately for onward investment in
your country. I need you to stand in for me as my foreign beneficiary to
receive the funds and provide an account for the bank to transfer the funds

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