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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 Al-Gaddafi <abus320000@gmail.com>
Reply-To: abus32006@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 08:32:38 +0400
Subject: Please Response Needed


Good Day,

I want to indulge your humble person to read through this letter written by
me.

I am Aisha Al-Gaddafi , the Daughter of late Col. Muammar Gaddafi, former
Libya Leader who died on October 20, 2011. I have the belief and
understanding that my late father’s death was masterminded by the
international community based on the role my late Father has shown to the
western world over his leadership in our country Libya . They have taken
all that I suffered and saved for since his death including some of my
treasure, houses and bank accounts closed by the new Government. Hence, I
am contacting you to assist me in removing the sum of sixty five million
USA dollars deposited with a safe deposit company in Dubai, United Arab
Emirate.

The funds was deposited with a deposit company in my name and as a matter
of fact me, my only son and the entire family of my father in-law were
trapped in a bunker here in Tripoli. I manage to sneak out with my son with
the help of a security guard on duty that fateful day. I manage to crossed
the border and I am presently into hiding in Oman without any other means
of communication unless my laptop hoping to arrange for my traveling out
possible to Europe to safeguard my life because I know that the regime of
my father has collapse after his death .Please for your kind assistance I
will offer you 30% of the total sum, all the legal documentation concerning
the deposit are with me, I will only write power of attorney making you the
new beneficiary of the deposit so that the security company can release the
consignment to you.

Bear in mind that the funds was deposited with the safe deposit firm as a
household effect, therefore they do not know the real content, so you are
going to collect the consignment as house effect from the security company
whereas only you and I know the real content.

Once you successfully collect the consignment from the deposit company you
will send me with some money so that I can arrange for my traveling where
we can meet ourselves for disbursement.

May Allah grant you the heart to assist me and my only son in this our
trial period, please never abandon me with my son just because we are
Arabs, but I want to assure you that I am of a clean heart that was brought
up under western education but married to a cruel family.

Get back with your details so that we can proceed without delay because l
am here without help from no one. Please you should respond ONLY though my
most private mail box: a <aishaalg32000@gmail.com>bus32006@yahoo.com
<bus32000@yahoo.com>

Best regards,

Aisha Al-Gaddafi

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