419 scam: "Madam Safia Farkash"<info@info.net> Seeking your consent

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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "diplomatic delivery"
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "the consignment" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "million us 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)
- "diplomatic delivery" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Madam Safia Farkash" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <safiafarkash00@live.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 04:09:34 -0400
Subject: Seeking your consent

Good day,
I am SAFIA FARKASH, wife of late Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Gaddafi, who was brutally murder by National transaction council's (NTC) fighter in his place of birth Sirte. I was proud of my husband's courage and my children who stood up to 40 countries and their agents throughout six months and considered them to be martyrs.
I am contacting you to assist me in removing the sum of thirty six million US dollars been deposited with a security company abroad. The funds were deposited with a security company in my maiden name by my late husband as the benefactor before his sudden death. Due to the fact that the regime of my husband Colonel Muarmar Gaddafi has crumbled the entire family scattered all over for safety.
Right now I have crossed the border and I am presently into hiding in Algeria without any other means of communication unless with my laptop because of security reasons hoping to arrange for my traveling out possible to Europe to safeguard my life and that of my remaining sons.
I contacted you to be my appointee so that the security firm can release the consignments on your behalf, and to make this possible I have contacted a reputable attorney in London who will assist us to secure the release of the consignments from the security firm without any hitch or breach of the law.

Feel comfortable to work with me in this regard, I know that you must be afraid of that name (GADDAFI) but I am assuring you that my late husband deposited the consignments with my maiden name without the name Gaddafi on the record of the security company, this is to avoid trace.

Please for your kind assistance I will offer you 30% of the total sum, all the legal documentation concerning the deposit are with me, I will only write power of attorney making you the new beneficiary of the deposit so that the security company can release the consignment to you.

Bear in mind that the funds was deposited with the security firm as house valuables, therefore they do not know the real content, so the consignment will be release on your behalf as house valuable from the security company whereas only you and me knows the real content.

Once the consignments has been secured from the security company and delivered to you through diplomatic delivery system which is very safe, you will then send me with some money so that I can arrange for my traveling where we can meet ourselves for disbursement.
For your kind assistance I will offer you 30% of the total sum,5% shall be keep aside to offset any expenses we might incur while 65% will be me.

May Allah grant you the heart to assist me and my only son in this our trial period, please never you abandon me with my son just because we are Arabs.
Get back with your details:

Your full name
Full address
Telephone number
Age
Occupation

Upon the receipt of the requested information we can then proceed without delay because I am here without help from no one.

Madam Safia Gaddafi

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