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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:
  • "is highly confidential" (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.
  • eloy_savimbi@inbox.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "eloy_savimbi13 Gazeta.pl" <eloy_savimbi13@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: eloy_savimbi@inbox.com
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:06:56 +0200
Subject: GET BACK TO ME URGENTLY ELOY SAVIMBI

FROM DESK OF ELOY SAVIMBI.
BANK OF AFRICA .
GENERAL COMPUTING,
KEY TESTED TELEX/ WIRE TRANSFER UNIT
BLAIS SQUARE , OUAGADOUGOU ¡V BURKINA-FASO
*Email :* eloy_savimbi@inbox.com

Good my Dear,
My name is eloy savimbi. I am 26yrs old, just stated work with the Bank of
Africa as a Computer Scientist. My unit is in charge of wire transfer
through Key Tested Telex ( K.T.T), and wire transfer bank to bank(swift
system).Several times in my computer your name has been appearing but for
the fact that I would not like to sabotage the trust given to me to be in
this position, that was why I kept calm.
After a serious taught, I decided to contact you not minding the risk of
sending this message across to you, because these top officials in bank
can never tell you the truth about your money rather allow you to spend
and pay all you have without getting anything in return. Because the
Bank is using this fund for trading and making interest which the place top
bank official are gaining from.
Now I am out to take this risk and make this transfer to your
designated bank account if you will promise me of my Security I will
wire this money to your designated bank account without the knowledge of
any body or any top official in the bank as soon as I wire this funds
through (SWIFT PROCESS), I will immediately run away from the bank and come
up to meet you in your country. This is a mafia set-up of which I am
ready to do now because I am not ready to work in my country here for life
because of the instability of this country.
The only instrument I need right now is a new release hard diskette
(COMPUTERONIC KTT DRIVE 3000 STORAGE FACILITY CAPACITOR 1990) which I will
use to store all your information. After storing all your information on
this diskette, I will immediately make transfer. Of course this will be
achieved within 24 Banking hours. This is the only way you will get your
payment. On confirmation of the funds in your account, I will destroy the
diskette and run away immediately after the successful transfer money.

Upon receipt of your response through this *Email :
eloy_savimbi@inbox.com.*l will give you a contact number where you
will call me for more explanation
on this if you wish, but mind you this is highly confidential for my sake, I
would be please if you will reconfirm your Fax and Phone number for easy
communication as a matter of urgency to this matter.
Note: On no reason should you disclose this latest development to anybody,
Even the people you may trust hoping that you are together with them are
here planning on how to change your name as the beneficiary of this fund to
their brother's account name.

Yours Faithfully,
eloy savimbi.

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