419 scam: "Aisha Gaddafi"<meganolsen123@gmail.com> URGENT :

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "into your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Aisha Gaddafi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aisha0803391@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:29:40 +0200
Subject: URGENT :

Dear Friend,

Let this message not surprise you, I am contacting you due to the problem my family is presently having in my country Libya, a problem that is very tougher for me and my remaining family. My Father is dead, killed by NATO air strike, and the rest of us are endangered in Algerian.

I am Aisha Gaddafi one of the daughters of Muammar Gaddafi, the late president of Libya, I am currently residing in one of the African Countries Algerian, unfortunately as a refugee. At the meantime, my family is the target of Western nations for no reason who wants to destroy my generation at all costs. Our investments and bank accounts in several countries are freeze. Insha Allahu, I will make you a part of my family heritage, if you can help me out at this difficult time of my life. All I need from you is for you to open an online account in at least 2 banks, one in UK and the other in BurkinaFaso Republic. I have accounts with big sums of money in these banks. All you do is to open an online account with these banks and I will transfer all my money to your accounts. I don't want anybody to know about this or my accounts will be freeze. There is an international conspiracy to seize all our family accounts/investments around the world but I have Good relationship with the
mention country so they never exp

If you are interested to assist me in this regards kindly get back to me as soon as possible for more details on how to proceed. Needless to say that I will compensate you handsomely once the transfer is effected into your nominated bank account. I want you to assist me get this part of my money ($5,500,000.00) out of one of my account with the help of my lawyer who i will instruct to change everything in your name and transfer the money into your account. I will give you 20% of the total money if you can help me get this deal done. Where i am now, i cannot disclose it and no telephone calls because it will be monitored. We can only talk via email so that i will give you all the information you may need to complete, this deal.

I want you to act fast so that we will remove this money from the account before the Libyan Government and UN frozen my account. let this issue be very TOP SECRET between me and you. I am looking forward to hear from you.

Warmest Regards,
Aisha Gaddafi

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