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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "saloy savimbi" <saloy-savimbi12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: saloy_savimbi@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:32:12 +0000
Subject: CONSIDER MY URGENT REQUEST.

Dearest Thompson,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that
we have not yet met before. I managed to get your contact details through
the Internet myself, Time is of importance and I was desperately looking for
a person to assist me in this confidential transaction. My movement and that
of other members of my family has been highly restricted but happily I have
been able to move out the Angola and am now in Burkina-Faso.

I am Saloy Savimbi, son of the late leader of Unite Rebel Jonas Savimbi of
Angola who died on the 22nd
February2002.(http://www.empereur.com/angola)Before the death of my father
he deposited the sum of USD8.5,Million Dollars.(Eight ,Five thousands united
states dollars) in a private security trust company for safe keeping only.
All the related documents are intact with me and I have contacted the
company .I am currently in Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso as an asylum seeker
pending when I get a foreign partner because the monetary laws here which do
not allow asylum seekers to operate any bank account.

MUTUAL TRUST AND CONFIDENTIALITY
Based on the above, I am contacting you so that you stand with the
information i will send to you as my late father’s partner and also help me
invest this fund in your country hoping that you will remain trust worthy.
The fund was realised from gold and diamond sales when my late father was
leading some region in our country. If you are ready I will give you all the
information needed.

PLEASE YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY IN THIS TRANSACTION IS HIGHLY REQUIRED.

Yours sincerely,
Saloy Savimbi.

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