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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • mesav11@caramail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mariam & Emmanuel Savimbi" <mesav22@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mesav11@caramail.com
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:36:00 +0100
Subject: From Mariam & Emmanuel

Mariam & Emmanuel.
Dakar Senegal, Refugee Camp,
West Africa.
Alt email: mesav11@caramail.com


Hello My Dear,

We are writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or meet ourselves previously we are asking for your assistance after
We have gone through a profile that speaks good of you. We want to find out if it's possible for you to deal with individual as to investment.
My dear we shall be glad if you can allow us and lead us to the right channel towards your assistance to our situation now.
we shall make our proposal well known to you. we wish to use this opportunity to introduce ourselves to you.

Miss Mariam Savimbi, 24 years old girl and my twin brother Emmanuel Savimbi citizens of Angola. We are currently in Dakar where our late Father deposited the fund

We are biological children to late General Jonas Savimbi. Our father Died on 22nd of feb.2002 . you can find out more on www.empereur.com/angola.html
after which I had to flee with my brother to Dakar Senegal
where we are staying as a refugee now.
The main reason why we are contacting you now is to seek your assistance in the area of our future investment and also to help us to retreive and transfer the money that he deposited in Security home here in Dakar Senegal over to your possession.the amount is (US 10.3 Million dollars) he made this deposit some years back,the money was deposited as a family treasure which we inherit from our late father.

Please we are asking you to stand on our behalf as
our partner to claim the money out from the security company and transfer it into your possition
We have made up our mind to offer you 15% of the total money, while the remaining will go into a productive business for us , As we have mention earlier

We Shall make the procedure to this transaction to be well known to you and we shall give you the contact of the financial company so that you will contact them for more verification.
please attach your direct and full contact address as you reply to me,
as soon as you received this letter,

Get back to us through this email address: mesav11@caramail.com


We await to hear from you soon.
yours Mariam & Emmanuel Savimbi

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