I'm in the money! Or...Who is so silly daft as to believe this is ever true?

[enfieldspares]

Hello Dear

How are you doing today? I came across your contact prior to a private
search while in need of your assistance. I hope my mail meets you in
good health?

Dear I have decided to contact you after much thought considering the
fact that we have not meet before, but because of some circumstance
obliged me,

I decided to contact you due to the urgency of my present situation
here in the refugee camp for your rescue and also for a business
venture/project in which I need your assistance in this business
establishment in your country as my foreign partner as well as my
legal appointed trustee.

My name is Aisha Gaddafi and presently living in Germany, I am a Widow
and single Mother with three Children, the only biological Daughter of
late Libyan President (Late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi) and presently I
am under political asylum protection by the German Government.

I have funds worth "Twenty seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars $ 27.500.000.00 US Dollars which I want to entrust to
you for an investment project in your country.

If you are willing to handle this project on my behalf, kindly reply
urgently to enable me to provide you with more details to start the
transfer process.

Please, I want you to contact me here (aishamuammar40@gmail.com) for
more details.

I will enclose more about me when I hear from you, I shall also
appreciate your urgent response through my email address.

Best regard

Yours Sincerely.

Aisha Gaddafi

 

[del.gue]

I know someone who fell for one of these scams... lost a few thousand.
But not many people cared as he was horrible individual!!

 

[thistledeyke]

Seems legit to me.

 

[Pine Marten]

It doesn't even work as a story. Gaddafi had a number of daughters, one of whom help quite high positions in his government. I forget her name, she used to be quite visible and active around Europe.

 

[Swedish]

Its quite incredible isn't it? These emails have been circulating for more than 25 years and yet people still fall for them.

 

[The Singing Stalker]

It’s ok, relax. I have emailed her. You might not want the money but I do.

 

[enfieldspares]

It's like the Rolex watch scam on Gold Cup Day at Cheltenham. Yet, as SWEDISH says, around for decades yet folk still fall for it. Just daft.

 

[308tikka]

They are designed - spelling mistakes et al - to be rejected by those with half a brain.

Only the truly stupid/greedy reply.

 

[Franchi Matt]

Dont knock it till you've tried it.

 

[Len the dog]

Some years ago I was selling a car on Autotrader, out of the many thousands of BMW 3 series on sale in the UK alone a very nice gentleman from Nigeria decided that mine was the perfect gift to his sister on her wedding day. He offered to pay in full together with the export costs if I let him have my bank details.
As a thank you he even invited me to the wedding but unfortunately I was busy that weekend, I hope they had a lovely day.

 

[Fabnosh]

What!?!?!.....you mean that $2m frozen in a Nigerian bank account in my name and just needing $2000 to 'smooth' the administration to facilitate its release might not be real. Huh, you're having a laugh, of course it's real I have a letter from the Nigerian minister of foreign affairs to prove it.

FN

 

[Swedish]

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[Husky]

A friend of a friend works in IT security, he has an old lap top which has been wiped of all information and a email address used for the sole purpose of visiting porn web sites.
He then clicks on all the links for various services and products and enters the scammers email address.

 

[Ade8mm]

Ayesha Ghaddafi lives just up the road from my place in Muscat with her Mother (given sanctuary here by the late Sultan Qaboos)
I am yet to bump into her in the supermarket though!
If I do, I will be sure to ask her about it

 

[Ade8mm]

It doesn't even work as a story. Gaddafi had a number of daughters, one of whom help quite high positions in his government. I forget her name, she used to be quite visible and active around Europe.

I believe Muammar Ghaddafi only had one biogical daughter. Aisha/Ayesha.
She was previously a Goodwill Ambassador for the (currently impotent) UN

 

[Cootmeurer]

It’s not just the stupid that fall for them. Back 20 years ago we had a brilliant scientist, son of a Nobel Prize winner, that came to us to research a military biotechnology thing. Original funding source was DARPA (the US Military advanced science group). They pulled funding and our contact was so intellectually invested in the project he wouldn’t let it go, and sought “alternative” funding sources.

Within 6 months it all turned to a giant pile of crap, and at the base of the crap pile was our contact and his “Nigerian” financier.

Oh yeah, he went to jail as well. Seems stealing funds from the government and sending them to Nigerian scammers is frowned upon.

 

[Suilven]

They are designed - spelling mistakes et al - to be rejected by those with half a brain.

Only the truly stupid/greedy reply.

This is it exactly.

They are looking for the vulnerable; sophisticated/plausible approaches mean a lot of time invested in folk that will eventually sus them out.

Scammers are looking for people that can't see through the most ridiculous story.

 

[John Gryphon]

Lets all email the ****