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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.

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Fraud email example:

From: rosa55savimbi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:20:51 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Attn=3A=20Please=20kindly=20have=20short=20view=20of=20this=20website=3A=28=3C=3Chttp=3A//www=2Eempereur=2Ecom/angola=2Ehtml=3E=3E=29as=20it=20forms=20the=20basis=20of=20this=20transaction=20and=20being=20pathetic=20in=20nature=20before=20going=20through=20the=20main=20body=20of=20my=20email=20to=20you=2Cthanks=20for=20your=20patience=2E?=

Attn: Please kindly have short view of this website:(<<http://www.empereur.com/angola.html>>)as
it forms the basis of this transaction and being pathetic in nature before
going through the main body of my email to you,thanks for your patience.

Dear Sir / Madam,


I apologized for using this medium to reach you for a transaction/ business
of this magnitude, but this is due to the confidentiality and promptness
it demands. It is with trust that I wish to contact you on this matter concerning
the transfer of Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.

I managed to get your contact details through South African Information
Exchange situated in World Trade Center Pretoria, Republic Of South Africa.

My movement and that of other members of my family has been highly restricted
but happily I was able to move out of Angola and I'm now in one of the African
countries. I am Mrs Rosa Savimbi,a widow and wife of the late leader of
UNITA Rebel Mr. Jonas Savimbi of Angola who died on the 22nd February 2002.
Please Download the following website below for more details on my beloved
husband's death.
(<<http://www.empereur.com/angola.html>>)

Before the death of my husband, he deposited the sum of Eighteen Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ( 18.5 Million USD ) in a Private
Security Trust Company for safe keeping only. All the related documents
are intact with me and I have contacted the company. I am currently in one
of the African States as an asylum seeker pending when I get a Foriegn Partner/Investor
because the monetary or financial laws here does not allow asylum seekers
to operate any bank account.

Remember that my present situation will not allow me to search for another
person, I absolutely HOLD YOU ON TRUST. Therefore I urge you to respond
immediately to this my email to enable me commence with the modalities of
this transfer as I am well prepared now and hope to continue with you in
near future.

You can contact me immediately via my secured and family private email address
:rosa55savimbi@yahoo.com


Yours Sincerely,



Mrs. Rosa Savimbi





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