419 scam: "Ms Ayesha Gaddafi"<aisha_gdafi@yahoo.com.sg> Compliment/Investment

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- aisha_dafi@sunumail.sn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms Ayesha Gaddafi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aisha_gdafi@sunumail.sn>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 03:04:02 +0100
Subject: Compliment/Investment

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. I am Ayesha Gaddafi, one of the daughters of the embattled president of Libya, I am currently residing in one of the African Countries, unfortunately as a refugee. At the meantime, my family is the target of Western nations led by Nato who wants to destroy my father at all costs.Our investments and bank accounts in several countries are their targets to freeze.

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 security firm and finance house with my late brother Saif al-Arab Gaddafi who was killed by NATO air strike, for a possible investment in your country.

If this transaction interest you, you don’t have to disclose it to any body because of what is going on with my entire family, if the united nation happens to know this amount, they will freeze it as they freezed others. Keep this transaction to yourself only until we finalize it. I want to introduce you to the security firm/ finance house so that the funds with them can be release to you immediately for onward investment in your country because I don’t want the United Nation to know about this amount.

Therefore, if you are capable of running an establishment and can maintain the high level of secrecy required in this project, upon receipt of your reply with contact details to aisha_dafi@sunumail.sn I will give you full details on how the business will be executed.

Best Regard,

Ayesha Gaddafi.

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