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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: Zainab Muatassim Gaddafi <zainabmuatassim@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:25:32 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Hello My Dearest One


Hello My Dearest One

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile, permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to stand as my next of kin and my late father business partner in your country and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I know this may sound strange to you , receiving a mail from an unknown person, but my condition has forced me to do that.After i have gone through your profile on America Catalog which my late father bought on his last business trip to United State Of America
 
 
My name is Zainab Muatassim, I am Only Adopted child of Late Mautassim Muammar Gaddafi of Libya (16years) and since i was born i have never known whom my mother is, that why i need your help right now to achieve my dream.  l need you to assist me receive $25.5million which my late father dislodge and lodge it into a consignment box and deposited with a Finance Security company in England there as family vulerable items, he's intention is to use the fund for oil field investment in IRAQ before his sudden death due to revolutionary war that took place in my country,and please when contacting the security company always let them know that it is family valuables items because it is only both of us know that the content is fund and you have to keep it confidential between both of us,  I am being monitored for now which make me to relocate to another country for Assylum Seeker, so that is why I want you to assist me in claiming this funds for me and help me
invest the money on profitable venture in your country. And i will like to relocate to your country immediately this fund reached to your care.
 

Although,I stoped my education immediately after the death of my father as there is no one that could assist to take care of my welfare.I am surviving my life here in  Assylum camp through the help of UNHCR.
 
Frankingly speaking,since I left my country to Assylum Camp here ,life is very hard for me now since the help we recieve from them here is not enough to take care of my needs. So I will be very happy if you can do everything within your power immediately to help me so that we can move this money out from finances house into your own bank account there, and this way,myself will go out from here and come over to stay with you and from there,you will be able to help me to complete my education and also invest this money into a profitable joint business for our both mutual benefits,hence all arrangements and plans will be done by you
 
Once i receive your message,I will send you all the finance house  and introduces you to finance house as my next of kin and my foreign partner in your country, then send you the finance house contacts for your formal introduction from your own side, You shall then be giving me information on how you're going with them.I shall also send my photos to you and i shall also need yours own too,and no matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those people that killed my Daddy are still after me.


Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Miss Zainab Muatassim

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