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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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Fraud email example:

From: "yuhsiu" <yuhsiu@kbronet.com.tw>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:02:43 +0800
Subject: FROM AYESHA GADHAFI PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.

Good Day,

I am Ayesha Gadhafi the daughter of the former Libyan leader, Late Col. Muammar Gadhafi. However,
I was never in support of my father¡¦s position in killing the Libyan citizens. I am sending you
this email in respect of my father¡¦s funds that was deposited in my name in a reputable financial
institute in FRANCE and my father thought the said funds has been seized before he died. Now the
Government is after us and trying to liquidate all my late father¡¦s funds.

I would need your assistance to move the funds out of FRANCE to your country based on the fact
that,all our activities are presently monitored and we cannot make any trip out of Algeria or get
involved in any monetary issue or business transaction, hence I seek your assistance. I will send
more information to you if you accept to assist me. Right now we have a lot of calamity in Libya
and the

US government has already seized $200billion dollars of my late father¡¦s wealth in the United
State of America and the British did the same too. So therefore, I am trying to make sure they
don¡¦t find the $65Million that is deposited in my name in FRANCE. This is why I am trying to move
the funds as soon as possible because presently, I am in the Algerian Refugee camp under the
Algerian Government

Protection Act, I can¡¦t make that happen, and hence I contacted you. I have been here in this camp
since August 2011 and at that time I came in here, I was pregnant and right now have a beautiful baby.

I want you to know that I have a past and history to protect and I have never supported my late
father in his wrong ways that is why I want to separate myself from the family. I actually came
across your contact information while using a soft-ware called the internet web detective. Having
studied a bit of your profile as displayed by the web detective I came to the conclusion that you
will be a very trustworthy and reliable partner since you have had no criminal records in the past
or present, hence I contacted you because I know you are capable to handle this project and assist
me to receive these funds.


At this point I can¡¦t communicate with you on phone, but only by email as we have restricted
access. I will also want you to know that I have done all that is necessary for you to receive
these funds without any problem or eyebrow. As soon as I receive your email I will send you more
information and also the contact of the financial institute in FRANCE to contact them and make
further claims of these funds to your possession and hold it till am out of this camp for
investment purpose in your country. But please I want you to know that I am working with you with
full trust and honesty on this because the new Government of Libya is seriously looking for all
funds under my late father¡¦s name.

The total fund is $65Million and you shall have 30% of the total amount for assisting me in making
this transfer a success. I also want you to know that there is no legal implication of any kind or
any unforeseen one and it is 100% risk free and it is compulsory you keep every detail in this
message confidential and secretive between us and the bank official that will be assist us. I also
want you to know that none of my relative know about these funds and it is an inheritance from my
father and everyone thought that the funds had been seized. As soon as we have the change of the
account done to your name, then we can make transfer of the funds in bits and I would prefer the
first transfer of $10M to your account before subsequent transfer would be done.

Please, kindly get back to me on my email address below to enable me forward you more information.
We would need a change of ownership which I would sign to that effect immediately. Please, as a
result of the present issue in Libya, I would want you to keep this confidential because if the
Government finds out about the funds, it would be confiscated. The transfer is 100% risk free as
all the paper works that would prove the legitimacy of the funds when it is transferred into your
account, would be made available by the bank including the origin of funds that would be issued as
a contract payment.

Regards,

Ayesha Gadhafi.
Please do get me with this my personal private E-mail for security reasons: ayeshag@globomail.com

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