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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27833343232 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • amisa@executivemail.co.za

Fraud email example:

From: amisa@executivemail.co.za
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:03:49 +0200
Subject: A CRY FOR HELP

Mrs. Amisa Savimbi
NO 46 MANDELA SREET,
JHB SOUTH AFRICA

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am MRS AMISA SAVIMBI, from Angola. I got your contact and profile through www. There is information I would like you to keep very confidential.

There is sum amount of money my late Husband UNITA Rebel leader Jonas Savimbi deposited with a Security company with network of branches in Africa, Europe and in different parts of America. This consignment was registered as personal artifact (Jewelries) to avoid suspicions for
safekeeping before he was killed by Angolan Military forces.

My late husband married four wives. I am the second wife. I will not be able to give you the full details that led to that ugly incident.
Presently I am staying in Johannesburg, the former capital of Republic of South Africa, just to save my life, with my three children. The money in question is Seventeen million five hundred thousand united state dollars ($17.500,000.00Milllion) U.S. Dollars Only.

What I would want you to do, is to assist me to take delivery of the consignment from the security company so that it cannot be traced to me or any of the Savimbi's family and then transferred same into your country for investment prior to your advise, and we shall open a small
account in a Bank in your name. I will give you the 25% of the money for your assistance. There is no risk in this transaction. I will use the remaining balance of the money for an investment in your country for the future of my children.

If you are interested, and can maintain the very confidentiality of this transaction, you e-mail: amisa@executivemail.co.za me immediately for more clarification, and also note that I am a Political Asylum Seeker in South Africa because of the killing of my husband, and the civil war going on in our country (Angola).

The consignment of the defaced cash would be moved to any branch of the security company nearest to you. Upon receipt of your response, I will provide you with necessary details to enable you proceed and claim the fund from the security company for our investments, pending on my arrival to your country.

I can speak little English, and my son also speaks English
very well, hence our major language is Portuguese.


My child and me are using this number +27-83-334-3232


Thank you very much.

Mrs. Amisa Savimbi.
For the family

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