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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • sarahsvmb@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Sarah Tami Savimbi <sarahsvmb@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sarahsvmb@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:03:48 +05-30
Subject: Soliciting For Partnership!!!!


ATTENTION!!
DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT
May I use this opportunity to introduce myself as Mrs. Sarah Savimbi.Iam the wife to the late MR.
GREAT JONAS SAVIMBI,the leader of the Angolan Revolutionary Group known
as the (UNITA)who died while on active duty in an effort to liberate our people. I am
contacting you with the believe that we will develop a cordial business relationship which will be beneficial to both parties.
I am currently in possession of 9,000,000(Nine Million Dollars) which
I intend to use for investment purposes specifically in your country. The money came about
as a result of my late husband's inability to proceed with the purchase of military
hardware, which he contracted with South Africa Arms Company. Since the start of our civil war, the source of the funds in prosecuting the war has been from the sales of diamond which is under our control. My son was the Secretary Of State in mining under the leadership of my late husband.
The diamonds were always exported to South Africa and part of the
proceeds usually used in buying military hardware's. I traveled immediately to my late husband's
residence in South Africa and discovered the sum of NINE MILLION DOLLARS cash hidden under his underground safe. Due to my status as a refuge, I cannot invest these funds here in South Africa. I therefore seek your assistance in transferring this funds out of South Africa, all the
necessary arrangements has been made by me and i assured you that there is no risk attached to this transaction and we will work modalities for the success of this transaction. I promise to give you 30% of the total funds for your assistance and my family will use the remaining 70% for our
investment in your country.
I hope that this proposal will interest you and I will like you to
contact my son who is presently under asylum in Europe through his email for security reason. You can visit http://www.empereur.com/angola.html so that you will understand my
plight. Please I will like you to keep this transaction are utmost secrecy in whatever your decision will be while I await your response through the security email address of my Son.
Regards,
Mrs. Sarah Tami Savimbi.
Private Email: Sarahsvmb@yahoo.co.uk

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