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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: "Mrs. Safia Gaddafi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <smrssofia@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:27:52 -0800
Subject: From Mrs. Safia 83.96.162.32

Hello Dear,

I am Mrs. Safia Gaddafi,the wife of former Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

Due to obvious reasons, I offers a partnership proposal to you which will enable us to sincerely deliberate the evacuation of the assets of my late husband which was gruesomely murdered.Your esteem particulars was given to me by my husband's closed allied.

Our entire family are in difficult situation and we must immediately relocate certain sums of his assets to any undisclosed custody that will not raise any eyebrow of my late husband's enemies. More so, this must be done in a high secretive manner. These Transaction is Secured and 100% Risk Free,be rest assured.

These assets is currently deposited in the name of an existing legal entity. Your role is to act as a proxy:-


(1). Receive of the assets into your nominated custody for long time Investment.
(2). Invest/Manage the assets in any profitable investment in any part of the world.
(3). Value of this assets: Not revealed for security reasons until an MOU is signed.

On your acceptance on this partnership request, I suggest a meeting will be scheduled with you to discuss the transaction one on one with our family attorney.

I await your prompt response.

Yours Truly,

Mrs. Safia Gaddafi.
smrssofia@yahoo.com

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