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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.Rosa Jonas Savimbi" <rosasavimbi9@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:58:39 -0700
Subject: Urgent Attention

Urgent Attention:

I got your contact in my search for a trustworthy foreigner that will assist me with my present predicament, as I don’t even know whom to trust so I allowed the spirit of God to lead me.

Firstly let me introduce my self. I am Mrs. Rosa Jonas Savimbi, wife of the late leader of the National Union of the total Liberation of Angola (U.N.I.T.A) who died on the February 22 2002 by the bullet of the ruling government troop.

My late husband was controlling the northern part of Angola as a rebel leader which is blessed with a huge deposit of diamonds this my late husband used to his advantage, mining and selling these diamond to foreign individuals and government in return for huge amount of US Dollars and ammunitions that is part of the reasons couple with determination why he was able to sustain his troop for 30 years of civil war before his untimely death

He left a huge amount of money which amount to $100m (United state dollars) he kept the money under my care in case of eventuality so that the future of me and our children will be secure. when we heard the bad news of his death his trusted aid moved me and the children and members of our family out of our hiding, we traveled in a fishing boat to Port Lois Mauritius from where I am making this contact.,
The money has been coded and secretly deposited in a security company and declared as “FAMILY TREASURE” for onward courier to reliable foreigner in an advanced economy like your country for safe keep.

I am offering you 30% of the total money if you will assist me to move this money out of Mauritius as the foreign beneficiary and provide a safe account, while I and my family will have 70%. I am assuring you that this transaction is risk free as we have put all the logistics in place to make it successful all we need from you is your co-operation and sincerity of purpose.

You will be contacting my brother in-law Robert Savimbi for more details on how you are going to assist us conclude this transaction I gave him authority to assist me due to health reasons I am recovering from a traumatic attack since the death of my husband. I will wait for your response, thank you and God bless.

Mrs.Rosa Jonas Savimbi
NB.....................
GET BACK TO ME TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS(rosasavimbi99@hotmail.com rosasavimbi99@netscape.net. I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR UNGENT REPLY WHEN YOU CALL ASK FOR ROBERT TELL HIM THAT YOU ARE CALLING ON BEHALF OF MADAM AGNES LETTER OF ASSISTANCE

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