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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: "Aisha Gaddafi" <msaisha_gaddafi@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: aishagaddafipvt@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:13:27 +0200
Subject: From Ms Aisha

>From Aisha Gaddafi,

I am Aisha Gaddafi the daughter of the former Libyan leader, late col.
Muammar Gaddafi. 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 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 transfer the funds (valued at
US$25Million) to your name and then
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 US$200Billion
dollars of my late father’s
wealth in the United States of America and the British did the same too.
So therefore, I am trying to
make sure they don’t find the US$25Million fund that was deposited in my
name. This is why I need
your assistance to move 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
myself, 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 on the yellow pages. Having studied a bit of your
profile as available, 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 and
for the fact that all my calls are monitored for security reasons. I will
also want you to know that I have
done all that are 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
who has custody of the funds presently, to contact them and make further
claims of these funds to
your particulars and have it transferred to your account, and then 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 US$25,000,000.00 and you shall have 20% 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.

Please, kindly get back to me immediately 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. There is no risk involved in this
transaction 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 an investment funds.

This transaction is meant to be confidential based on my personality, so
therefore, if you have an
alternative/private email address, do forward it to me upon receipt of
this email.

Regards,

Princess Aisha Gaddafi.

Email: aishagaddafipvt@gmail.com

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