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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: devine benedict <devinebenedict2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:25:01 +0530
Subject: Seeking your response for a business Partnership


Good day,

I am Devine M. H. Benedict, the personal and colleague lawyer to Aisha
Gaddafi on UK matters. Actually this message will come to you as a surprise
because you never expected it, but I truly believe that a day begins a
story And sometimes the success of man come by surprise.

Here is the message and request: Aisha Gaddafi is the only daughter of Late
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi known as Colonel Gaddafi who was a
Libyan revolutionary and politician, and the de facto ruler of Libya for 42
years. After the incident that occurred to the family which everyone heard,
the family has been facing serious house arrest and so many snags in the
hands of the Libyan people. Aisha Gaddafi have been living on a safe house
in Algeria presidential palace but later booted out of Algeria as the
Algerian Government states they took her in on humanitarian grounds as she
was heavily pregnant when she arrived at its borders and had yet to have an
arrest warrant issued against her but this time she blames Algeria for the
Gaddafi clan's problems which warrant her as they say she keeps attacking
her army bodyguards. The final straw was when she burned a picture of the
Algerian president. And so she was booted out and she is now living in
Oman, where she now resides at its government's expense.

Aisha Gaddafi is a former Libyan mediator and military official, former UN
Goodwill Ambassador, and lawyer by profession. By 2011, I was in a
partnership with her to invest on Oil and Gas which prompt her to deposit a
total sum of £6.5 Million Pounds GBP to a UK bank with the hope that it
will be re-transferred to USA for the Investment. Before the incident
occurred and the family accounts has been on hold but this fund was
deposited to a company name that has nothing to do with the family and
which makes the government not to know that is Aisha's fund. The only
person that knows the true outcome of the fund was the UK bank Manager. And
I have made several conversations with him and he said I should get a
partner to continue with the transaction. But He will have some percentage
to the transaction.

Now this is why am contacting you on this business, I want to channel this
business to Asia (Either U.A.E, India, Qatar or Bahrain) so it could be a
benefit to her follow Arab or Muslim brothers and sisters and where no one
will have any awareness or question. I have every legal prove to the fund
as a lawyer and all legal documents to back up the fund are with me. But I
have no body to handle the transaction in Asia so I decided to go through
the internet and in search of a good qualified personnel from which I got
your details.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. Kindly get back to me,
if you are willing to partner with me in this very transaction. In the
event you are not interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email
and tell no one about it. I am very careful on truncating my legal career
and should not mention this to someone else. I hope you can be trusted in
this regard.

Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you had been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do
receive your response.

Best regards
Devine M. H. Benedict
devinebenedict1@gmail.com <devinemhbenedict@gmail.com>

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