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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: "Agatha O Savimbi" <luke-agatha2005@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: agatha_ovie2005@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:10:27 +0000
Subject: URGENT

Agatha O Savimbi
Budumbura Refugee Camp,
Accra-Ghana
Email:

Dear Friend,
I am a refugee at the Budumbura refugee
camp here in Accra(Ghana).I got your contact from an
email directory and decided to contact you for
assistance. I am the daughter of Jonas Savimbi the
rebel leader in Angola who was short dead on the 25th
of February, 2002, by the opposing Angolan Army.

Before the death of my father he had deposited the sum
of $16,000,000.00(Sixteen million dollars)in a
security company in West Africa (Ghana).

All the legal documents for the deposit are with me
which my father gave to me for safe keeping.

After the death of my father I and my family fled to
West Africa (Ghana)where we are currently living. And
we have been trying to fly out of Africa but it has
been difficult for us to get visas from Africa. So we
want you to help us make claims of this fund ($16m) in
Ghana 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 so that we can share this money.

My family have agreed to give you 10%, which would be
($1.6Million dollars)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 incur
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.And I
want you to promise me that you will not run away with
the money or sit on it.

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.

Agatha O Savimbi.


Note: Currently I am in Budumbura refugee camp in
Accra-Ghana.When replying please do reply to my
private email address bellow;


Thanks.

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