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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.Muammar Gaddafi" <mrs.gaddafi.muammar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 14:32:10 +0100
Subject: I am Mrs. Safia Farkash,


mrs.safiafarkash1@hotmail.com
Cy




Dear Sir/madam

I am Mrs. Safia Farkash, the wife of late Libya’s former leader
Muammar Gaddafi. Who was killed by his own people and seize everything
that bears the family’s name and they are after my life and my
children’s. I am contacting you with the hope that you will be of
great assistance to stand by me to claim and invest the only money
left for the family.

I currently have within my reach the sum of $84.3 million U.S dollars
cash which is lying in a financial company which I shall reveal to you as
we proceed.

I therefore personally appeal to you seriously and religiously for your
urgent
assistance by changing the funds profile to your name or company name
and take over the money and invest it into a good business which will
be beneficial to both of us. I cannot be involved in financial
transaction at the moment because of sanctions place on me and my
family and again because I am a wanted person by the Libya government.
I have to run into hiding after the plan to arrest me, my daughter and
the rest of my family in Algeria in quest to destroy the entire
Gaddafi legacy.

Presently, the Government has intensified their probe in to my
husband’s finance and that of the entire family that bear Gaddafi.
This has led to the freezing of all our accounts, local and foreign,
the revoking of all our business licenses and the arrest of my First
son and the other of my son on a house arrest in Niger Republic.

In view of this development, I want to act very fast to entrust this
money into your care before it will be discovered and seized too. My
husband deposited the money in a finance firm for safe keeping while
he was alive.

No record of this fund is known by the government of Libya and the
country where the money is because there is no documentation showing
that we have such funds. It was deposited with a company name that
does not exist and have no link to my family.

Due to the current situation of my family, this has led me to result
to the use of the internet to seek a reliable person who can assist us
in taken over the money, move it from the country it is now and manage
it till thing get better for the family. I know is very risky to
entrust such a huge amount of money in a stranger’s hands but is
better for you to disappoint me and go with the money then those
blood suck to lay the dirty hands on the money. But if you can be
loyal and can do accord to instructions, I am ready to offer Fourteen
million, three hundred thousand US dollars out of the money to you and
your family for the transaction will demand your time, little of your
own finance and unfailing commitment.

If this proposal does not satisfy you, kindly delete and accept my
apology for intruding into your private life. Please do not let this
information off your computer for security reason for where we are
hiding now we were giving condition to stay and if the story comes out
we will be immediately be arrested and prosecuted and at my age and
my health I will not live more than two week in detention before death
will find me.

I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith.

Regards and Allah bless you.

Mrs. Safia Farkash

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