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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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: "Mrs jessica Savimbi" <sa_vi2002@educ.ar>
Reply-To: sa_vi1212003@yahoo.ca
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:19:02 -0700
Subject: URGENT REPLY


No. 22, Alexander Crescent,
Park View Estate,
Accra Ghana.

Dear Friend,

I pray God this message reaches you in wonderful
spirit.I am making this contact with you based on
trust and confidence
irrespective of the fact that we have not met before
and because of the nature
of the situation I found myself.
I am Mrs. Jessica A.Savimbi , from Angola.
l got your contact from www. and coupled with the
information i gathered
about you from the external trade department of my
country's chamber of
commerce and industry.

There is an information I would like you to keep very
confidential.
There is sum amount of money my late Husband {former
UNITA Rebel leader} General Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
deposited in a
suspence account
with a finance company for safe keeping few months
before he was
assasinated by the Angolan Millitary force sometime
last year.The squable
happened as over the issue of mineral and allocation
resource of diamond
using his power and influence to smuggled diamond to
the neighbouring
countries in exchange for money and other valuable
assets.
Presently, I am staying in one of the refugee
camps outside Angola just to save my life,with my
three children.
The money in question is $10,500,000.00 Milllion
U.S.Dollars.

I can't make the withdrawal of this fund,because my
husband registered the beneficiary of the fund as his
(Foriegn Bussiness
Partner). But the documents of the deposit are with
me. What I would
want you to do, is to assist me to get the funds
withdrawn from the
finance company, have the same transfered to your
country in your name and
thereafter share the funds by giving you 20% of the
total sum as commission.
Please there is no risk in this transaction. I will
use the remain balance of the money for an investiment
in your country for the future of my children. If you
are intrested, and can maintain the very
confidentiality of this
transaction,you e-mail me
immediately for more clearification.
The Angola government through it's various agents has
confisticated all my late husband known properties
since his death
.You can find how and when my husband was killed in
the BBC news achives in the following news
story:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1839252.stm
It was widely reported in the international news media

Thank you as I awaiting your urgent reply.
Thank you and God bless.
Mrs. Jessica A. Savimbi.

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