419 scam: "Abdulsalam Abubakar" <sabubakar@terra.com> Urgent from Libya

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Abdulsalam Abubakar" <sabubakar@terra.com>
Reply-To: <abubakar_salam@terra.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:50:40 -0000
Subject: Urgent from Libya

Sir,
Please pardon my approach for this is very urgent. I am abdulsalam the Confidential Personal Assistant to Khamis Gadhafi, one of the eldest sons of Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan leader. I have being instructed by my boss (Khamis Gadhafi) to urgently seek for the assistance of a foreign partner who will act as his Business Associate and a Signatory to his account to help him put a claim and to transfer his fund from this bank, Societe Generale de Banques au Burkina (SGBB) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in the African Shores. The amount is $29.6M (Twenty nine million six hundred thousand united states dollars). He has agreed to share this fund 50/50. He is very much anxious and sincere about this proposal because he does not want this fund to be frozen since all their funds and assets in the US, UK and France had being frozen and now the US and the UK are now negotiating the Africa Union (AU) and the Arab league (AL) to see that all funds and assets belonging to the sons and the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi both in Af

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Sir, this is an opportunity that must be taken seriously. Every information needed to make the transfer of this fund swift and successful will be provided to you. Please note that this is purely confidential, so if you are interested, send the following details asap;

YOUR NAME................
AGE...............................
SEX................................
COUNTRY....................
TELEPHONE...............

Yours faithfully
Abdulsalam Abubakar
(Confidential Personal Assistant)

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