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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: joseph savimbi <joseph_savimbi80002@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: joseph_savimbi19@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:49:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Kindly Assist My Family We Need Your Assistance.


A SUBSIDIARY OF SAVIMBI INVESTMENTS LTD)
MADRID-SPAIN.
SUBJECT: BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
PHONE:+34608076401
E-fax.+15097533389
joseph_savimbi19@yahoo.es

Attn:Sir,

I strongly believe that this message would come to you as a surprise.In fact, it is in respect of the strict confidence given to me that you are honest and versatile in business that motivated my interest to seek your cooperation in this transaction. My father is late General Jonas Savimbi the leader of revolutionary group of UNITA rebels in Angola. My Father made a lot of money through the job but could not invest the money immediately to avoid probe by the military government. He was able to save the sum of $80m(Eighty Million United States Dollars). He deposited this sum with a security firm in Madrid-Spain. The documents used in these depositions, together with the key of the safe, are with my mother.

With his death, I came to Madrid-Spain to live with my mother as a refugee but the violence and high incidence of robbery and murder here is alarming. Hence, I am contacting you to assist my mother and me in relocating to your Country. Consequently, I now seek your cooperation to come to Spain so that we can open a company account with your Company name here in Madrid, and then the Security company can deposit the money into the Company account for transfer to any account which you may provide. Again, whereby you can not come to Spain we can improvise another means to get the funds into your account. You can visit www.empereur.com/angola.html to really understand my plight.I hope that this proposal will interest you.

My mother and I have agreed to give 30% of the total sum to you while 65% will be for us then, the remaining 3% will be used to offset the bills incurred in the Course of the transfer while 2% will be for charity. The most important thing is to assist us to relocate to your country to live. However you are advised to reply me by mail using
joseph_savimbi19@yahoo.es or E-fax.+15097533389

I await your urgent response as success is guranutee.

Regards,
Joseph Savimbi.

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