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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: MS AISHA GADDAFI <aisha2gaddafi2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:35:08 +0600
Subject: DEAREST BELOVED ONE,

Dearest One,

I am Miss Aisha Gaddafi, biological daughters of the embattled
president of Libya; I am currently residing in this country
unfortunately as a refugee. At the same time, my family is the target
of Western nations led by Nato who want to destroy my father at all
costs. Our investments and bank accounts in several countries are
their targets to freeze.

I have been commissioned to contact an interested foreign
investor/partner who will be able to take absolute control of part of
the vast cash available to private account with my late brother who
was killed by NATO air strike, for a possible investment in your
country, the money is in three different accounts upon your response I
will disclose them to you to make your desire of which to first
process.

If this transaction interests you, you don’t have to disclose it to
anybody because of what is going on with my entire family, if the
United nation happens to know this account, they will freeze it as
they freeze others, so keep this transaction for yourself only until
we it hit into your account.

I want these funds to transfer into your account immediately for
onward investment in your country of choice. It will be ok. Because I
don’t want the United Nations to know about this account.

Therefore if you are capable of running an establishment and can
maintain the high level of secrecy required in this project, kindly
respond with the following information for details of the project
Please.

1. Your full names and address
2. Your private telephone and fax numbers
3. Your private emails address
4. Age and profession
Best Regards

Miss. Aisha Gaddafi.

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