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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: "Savimbi Santos" <santos_vimbi@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:41:20 +0400
Subject: God bless you

Dear Sir,

I got your contact from the right source and decided to contact you For
assistance. I am the son of Jonas Savimbi the rebel leader in Angola Who
was short dead on the 25th of February, 2002, by the opposing Angolan
Army.... PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS WEB PAGE FOR IT SAYS ALL.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1839000/1839252.stm>

Before the death of my father he had transferred the sum of
$6,000,000.00(Six million dollars). All the legal documents for the
deposit of this fund are with me which my father gave to me for safe keeping .
After the death of my father I fled to United Arab Emirates were I'm currently living in now.

And I have been trying to fly to Europe but it has been difficult for Us
to get visas from Dubai. So I want you to help us transfer this fund ($6m)
as my family beneficiary and transfer the money to your account or any
account of your choice before I and my family can get visas to fly down
to your country to invest with the money.

My family has agreed to give you 10%, of this Money for your assistance,
and 87% would be for us and the other 3% would be set aside for any
expenses that we may incure during the course of this transaction. And
part of our share of 87% would be invested in your country in any
profitable business proposed by you. While a large part of our share
will also be used to help charity organizations. We have never met, but
I want to trust you and please do not let us Down when this fund finally
gets into your account.

Please if you are Interested; get to me through my email address to
enable me feed you with more details and all necessary documentations.
Please treat this as confidential.

Best regards.

Savimbi Santos

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