419 scam: "Ayesha M. Gaddafi" <barrijaneotagyarkwaa@gmail.com> WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "million us dollars" (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)
- "stay blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- ayeshagaddafi20076@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ayesha M. Gaddafi" <barrijaneotagyarkwaa@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ayeshagaddafi20076@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:31:39 -0700
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY

Salam My dear, I am Dr. Ayesha Gaddafi, the daughter of the late Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi. I need your help so I can raise money to facilitate my
freedom from here.

I'm the daughter of the former Leader of Libya late Muammar Gaddafi who was
killed in the civil war that took place in the year 2011 that ended his
life on the 20th of October 2011. Before the death of my father, he made a
deposit of 11,500 million US dollars with a Bank.

No one knows about the money except the children and now my brother is in
the prison for the trial of war crime so I am the only one left, I got a
mail from the bank that I have to come for the funds but now I can't go
because after the death of my father the UN and Libya Government has been
tracking all my father's wealth and money everywhere around the globe and
this was the last deposit my father made before he died.

However, I am looking for a trustworthy person to stand as my foreign
partner and beneficiary to help me claim the funds and I am ready to reward
whoever he or she may be and I will also let the finance company know that
I am appointing the person as my partner and beneficiary to help me receive
the funds from the bank. Thereafter, I can come out of my present ordeal
and go somewhere I will start a new life.

Dear this transaction will be legally smooth and free, please keep this a
secret between both of us. I will furnish you with more information about
my incarceration here in Muscat Oman as soon as I hear from you. At
present, I don't receive or make calls for security reasons as it is being
monitored.

All communication will be done via. Email: *ayeshagaddafi20076@gmail.com
<ayeshagaddafi20076@gmail.com>*

Kindly contact me through my email for more details on how to help me
regain my inheritance money from the bank.

Stay blessed.

Mrs. Ayesha M. Gaddafi

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