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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Safia Farkash Gaddafi" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 13:19:07 +0100
Subject: I Need Your Assistance For this Transaction

From: Mrs. Safia Farkash Gaddafi

I Need Your Assistance For this Transaction

Attention: Sir /Madam,

How Are You? I Know That This Mail May Come To You Almost A Surprise As We Never Met Before And Please Before You Proceed Reading This mail, This Is True and not An Joke, Well I Saw Your Contact Email From Burkina Faso Chambers Of Commerce, After Much Consideration I Decided To Write You Since I Cannot Be Able To See You Face To Face For Now,

At First I Strongly Believed That Any Information Received From The Chambers Of Commerce Office Is Correct And Must Be Trusted. But Never Mind, I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment of fund
movement. I am SAFIA FARKASH, wife of late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Before he was killed, he gave everybody money in case any thing happens to him .He deposited the sum of US$65.5m (Sixty five million five hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in my name at bank of Africa in a country I will disclose to you as we proceed.

I have already left Libya to one of the West African countries. Consequently, our status/position of the present state of things does not permit me to open an account or run any huge financial business at the moment. That is why I want this fund records to be change to your full information that will enable you transferred it to any conducive account in any of the countries in the world. Your assistance
will enable us invest this money in your country or any where it will be safe and productive. But before we continue in this transaction,

we have to build a memorandum of trust that none of the
two parties shall betray each other. As soon as you agree to assist us, I shall quickly furnish you with the contact address of the bank where the US$65.5m
(Sixty five million five hundred Thousand United States Dollars was deposited. I will get you the deposit certificate of claim for ownership documents to you. Please I need your urgent and confidential response. Waiting for your prompt and positive response. Please, if you are not interested do not disclose my intention so that it will not get to my late husband, relatives or loyalist as they will burn
me alive with my entire family my private Email: mrssafia2014@yandex.com.
Thanks.
Mrs. Safia Farkash Gaddafi

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