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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "AISHA GHADAFI FOUNDATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: < barr.mark-lawson@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:00:29 +0530
Subject: LIBYA UPRISING

Attention Sir:
I am Barrister Mark Lawson, A solicitor at law, legal representative and personal attorney to Mrs. Aishat Ghadaffi, the only surviving daughter of the Late Libyan dictator, Colonel Muamar Ghadafi, who lost his life in the uprising that led to the regime changed in Libya 2012. See it as it happen:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15390980
In the meantime, My client, Aishat Ghadafi who was also a practicing lawyer before the uprising but right now incapacitated in her profession due to the fact that she is presently residing in Algeria as a political asylum seeker on humanitarian ground with her mother (Hajia Sofiyah Ghaddafi), wife of the Late Libyan leader with two other brothers, Mohammed Mohamed and Hannibal Ghadafi.
It may interest you to know that she has been my client since the past ten years and we have enjoyed good relationship together based on mutual and cooperative interests.
Since the death of her father and the change of regime in Libya, Its no news that Ghadafi’s  families has faced stern political intimidation, persecution and serious isolation which has forced my client to contact me recently on her proposal to immortalize her father in the future.
However, she has an idea of setting up a foundation in the Asian continent, through which she intends to reach out in term of aids and supportive outreach to the following countries: INDIA, BANGLADESH, SRI LANKA AND NEPAL. Through this Foundation, the Ghddafi Family intend to reach out to the disaster troubled zones in this region, the impoverished, the homeless and the less privileged as well as support in the education for the rural children in the troubled zones in these different countries.
NOTE: this proposed foundation is or MAY not necessarily need to bear GHADAFI'S  name to avoid political intrusion and unnecessary arguments, Her simple objective and mission is to deliver  aids and humanitarian efforts of  good  wills to these regions according to her father's last instruction which my client is hell bent to honour right now.
In this light, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the funds that valued €75. 000.000.00 ( Seventy Five Million Euro)  which has been kept for this purpose in one of her bank accounts in Europe, I will also want you to spear head this Foundation on her behalf and serve as her partner to get this funds to your bank or how ever before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge amount were deposited.
Let me also brief you clearly that it was stated in European foreign banking policy, rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed and unserviced till the period of 3 years started from the date of deposit,, the money will be transferred into the Government treasury as an unclaimed funds. It may also interest you to know that the deposit was made in this European bank in his cousin's name and this makes it easier to present you as the next of kin because she has an insider in the bank that can provide covers and protection of this interest. Therefore I seek your sincere consent to present you as the next of kin to this account, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, I shall then discus the modalities for transfer and the sharing mode of the fund in percentage.
I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me for more details.
Best regards.
Barrister, Mark Lawson    
 
Send your email to me on:       barr.mark-lawson@hotmail.com

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