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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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From: Robert Savimbi <robert45savimbi@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:27:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GREETING AND FAMILY INVESTMENT PROPOSAL FROM AGNES SAVIMBI, URGENT
PLS
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: robert45savimbi@yahoo.com
- From: Mrs. Catarina Agnes Jonas Savimbi PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: savimbifamily2002_robert_20agnes@hotmail.com OR robert0savimbi2009@hotmail.com Sub: This is top secret, keep confidential please.Beloved, This letter may come to you as a surprise but I really prayed to God to help me choose somebody that will be my true partner, a person who has a fear of God that cannot betray my remaining family and me as I don?t even know whom to trust so I allowed the spirit of God to lead me. I am Mrs. Agnes Jonas Savimbi, wife of the late leader of the National Union of the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) After surviving more than a dozen assassination attempts, my husband, Savimbi was killed four years later,On February 22, 2002 in a battle with Angolan government troops. Two weeks before he died, he called me and reveals the existence of US$25,765.000.00 (Twenty five Million, seven Hundred and sixty five Thousand United States Dollars) being deposited in a suspense account with the bank in South Africa. This money was income accrue from the sale of Gold & Diamond. When I heard the bad news of my husban d's death, his trusted aid moved me and members of our family out on hiding, but unfortunately my elder son and 1 were caught and place under house arrest. Luckily to us, my second son being sharp and clever has escaped through Zambia to South Africa where he resides as a political refugee. Now the problem he is facing their is that the labour of South Africa does not permit an asylum seeker (Refugee) the right to financial transaction. This was thebasic reason why I decide 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. 30% of the total money goes to you, as a commission for your services, while 70% goes to my family, which we intend to invest, immediately we are being 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 response through my son, thank you and God bless. Name: Robert Jonas Savimbi Tel No: + 27-73-933 5582 PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: savimbifamily2002_robert_20agnes@hotmail.com OR robert0savimbi2009@hotmail.com In your email to my son Robert Savimbi, kindly forward to him the following: 1 Your Full Name 2.Your Contact (Home) Address 3.Your Telephone and Fax number You may read the websites in Wikipedia that give detail news about the brutal killing of my humble father whose government and leadership earned my Countrymen many advantageous opportunities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Savimbi#2002:_Killed_in_combat http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1839252.stm http://www.answers.com/topic/jonas-savimbi Thanks and may the almighty father guide us through. Thank you. Mrs. Catarina Agnes Jonas Savimbi.
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