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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. Safiya Farkash Gaddafi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <safiyagaddafii@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:38:19 -0000
Subject: FROM LIBYA.

From: Mrs. Safiya Farkash Gaddafi.
Wife of the ex-Libyan leader Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi.



Contact me through my private E-mail: safiyagaddafii@gmail.com




MRS. GADDAFI OF LIBYA.


Dear friend,


How are you today? My name is Mrs. Safiya Farkash Gaddafi, Wife of the ex-Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the former and late leader of
Libya Colonel Muammar Gaddafi who was betrayed and embattled by Libyan and murdered by the Libyan rebels which led to his untimely death.

Since then, me and my children has been under threat and we are not allowed to invest or operate bank account and worst of all our moevement is being monitor and telephone call and our international passports are being seized by the new Libya regime and our bank accounts blocked and because of that I wrote this letter because I need you
to help me to secure some of my family funds amounting to *Billions of Dollars* that have been deposited by my late husband in different security
companies abroad which is no longer safe for being on my late husband name therefore I urgently need your help and ones we start, first, the beneficiary name should be immediately changed from my late husband name to your name through my lawyers.



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Since then, me and my children has been under threat and we are not allowed to invest or operate bank account and worst of all our moevement is being monitor and telephone call and our international passports are being seized by the new Libya regime and our bank accounts blocked and because of that I wrote this letter because I need you
to help me to secure some of my family funds amounting to *Billions of Dollars* that have been deposited by my late husband in different security
companies abroad which is no longer safe for being on my late husband name therefore I urgently need your help and ones we start, first, the beneficiary name should be immediately changed from my late husband name to your name through my lawyers.


I promise to make you richer by offering you 30% of the total amount that can be secured through your help and in each transactions succesfully completed by you and if you can assist me, we must work in confidentiality therefore I want you to please keep this as a greater secret. For further details, I want you to contact me through my private and secured email address (safiyagaddafii@gmail.com) for further details.


In your response, I want you to provide me with your particulars such as listed below because it will be used by my lawyers to make change of ownership of funds to your name:


1) Your full name.

2) Home or office Address.

3) Land Telephone and mobile phone numbers.

4) Your Age.

5) Your gender/Sex.

6) Your Occupation.

7) Any form of Identification, example: copy of (INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT or DRIVERS LINSENE).
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Contact me through my private E-mail: safiyagaddafii@gmail.com

As I eargerly await to hear from you.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs.Safiya Farkash Muammar Gaddafi.

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