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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mrs.agnesjonassavimbi@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • rksavimbi@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Agnes Savimbi" <mrs.agnesjonassavimbi@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:51 +0200
Subject: Re:From Mrs. Agnes Jonas Savimbi


From: Mrs. Agnes Jonas Savimbi=20
Email: mrs.agnesjonassavimbi@hotmail.com [mailto:mrs.agnesjonassavimbi@hot=
mail.com]
Sub: This is top secret, keep confidential please .=20
=20
Beloved,=20

This letter may come to you as a surprise but I really prayed to God to he=
lp me choose somebody that will be my true partner, a person who has a fea=
r of God that cannot betray my remaining family and me as I don't even kno=
w whom to trust so I allowed the spirit of God to lead me.=20

I am Mrs. Agnes Jonas Savimbi; wife of the late leader of the National Uni=
on of the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) after surviving more than a d=
ozen assassination attempts, my husband, Savimbi was killed four years lat=
er, in February 2002, in a battle with Angolan government troops.=20

Two weeks before he died, he called me and reveals the existence of US$25,=
765.000.00 (Twenty five Million, seven Hu ndred and sixty five Thousand Un=
ited States Dollars) being deposited in a suspense account with the bank i=
n South Africa. This money was income accrue from the sale of Gold & Diamo=
nd.=20

When I heard the bad news of my husband's death, his trusted aid moved me =
and members of our family out on hiding, but unfortunately my elder son an=
d myself were caught and place under house arrest. Luckily to us, my secon=
d son being sharp and clever has escaped through Zambia to South Africa wh=
ere he reside as a political refugee. Now the problem he is facing their i=
s that the labour of South Africa does not permit an asylum seeker (Refuge=
e) the right to financial transaction.This was the basic reason why I deci=
de to contact you, so that you will stand as the beneficiary of the funds,=
we are prepared to transfer the ownership of the funds to your name.=20

30% of the total money goes to you, as a commission for your services, whi=
le 70% goes to my family, which we intend to invest, immediately we are be=
ing released from house arrest. 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 son on his details below for more details on how you=
are going to assist us conclude this transaction. I will wait for your re=
sponse through my son, thank you and God bless.=20

Name: Robert Kamara Savimbi=20
Tel No: + 27-786 233 372=20
Email: rksavimbi@gmail.com [mailto:rksavimbi@gmail.com]

In your email to my son Robert Savimbi, kindly forward to him the followin=
g:=20
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1. Your Full Name
=20
2. Your Contact (Home) Address=20
3. Your Telephone and Fax number=20

Thanks and may the almighty father guide us through.=20
Thank you.
Mrs. Agnes Jonas Savimbi.


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[http://unddu.de/=3Fkid=3Dkid@mf2]

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