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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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Fraud email example:

From: "MADAM JESSICA SAVIMBI" <madamj_s@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:06:00 +0000
Subject: AWAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE

Dear,

How are you together with your family today.I pray God
Almight this message reaches you in wonderful spirit.How
are you and your family.I am Mrs.jessica E.Savimbi,from
Angola.l got your contact and profle W.W.W and coupled with
the information i gathered about you from the external
trade department of my country chamber of commerce and
industry in my country.

There is an imformation I would like you to keep very
confidential.There is sum ammount of money my late Husband
UNITA Rebel leader Jonas Malheiro.Savimbi deposited in a
Bank in AFRICA under a suspense account for safe keeping
Before he was killed by Angolan Millitary force.The squable
happened as over the issue of mineral and allocatio
resource of diamond using his power and influence to
smuggled diamond to the neighbouring country in exchanged
for money and other valuable asset.

My late husband married three wives.I am the second wife.I
will not be able to give you the full details that led to
that urgly incidents.Presently i am staying in nigeria,just
to save my life,with my three children. The money in
question,is $10,500,000.00 U.S.Dollars.What I would want
you to do,is to assits me to get the fund transfer into
your account in your country for investment prior to your
advise,and we shall open a small account in a Bank on your
name, and transfer the money to your country,through the
account.I will give you the 20% of the money for your
assitance.

There is no risk in this transaction. I will use the remain
balance of the money for an investiment in your country for
the future of my children.If you are intrested, and can
maintain the very confidential of this transaction,you
e-mail me immediately through my email address for more
clearification, and also note that I am a refugees in
nigeria,becuase of the killing of my late husband,and the
civil war going on in our country.kindly reply to my email
address.I can speak little english,and my son also speaks
english very well.

____________________________________________________________
Atten:Please reply me asap at this my private email box
only: madamj_s@walla.com
____________________________________________________________


Thank you very much.

Mrs Jessica Savimbi,

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