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#1 jurian

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 12:10 PM

i got this e-mail today and i dun get it. did anyone else get this e-mail? is it a trick or has anyone seen stuff about this on the news or what?

Dear Sir/Madam
May i use this opportunity to introduce myself as Mrs.Sarah Tami Savimbi.I
am 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 possesion of (Seventy Five Million United
States 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 millitary 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
millitary hardware's.I travelled immidiately to my late husband's residence
in South Africa and discovered the sum of SEVENTY FIVE 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
transfering this funds out of South Africa,all the necessary arragenments
has been made by me and i assure 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 10% of the total funds for your assistance
and my family will use the remaining 90% for our investment in your
country.I hope that this proposal will intrest 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 ar utmost secrecy in whatever your decision will be while i
await your response through the security email address of my Son. This is his
email address paulsavimbi@netscape.net.
Best Regards
MRS SARAH TAMI SAVIMBI

i dunno how they got my e-mail adres or stuff like that i have no clue what this is about :P anyone else know?
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#2 Deathwish

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 01:09 PM

Yeah mention South Africa what utter bullnuts... No arms deals going trough us atm. The last one ended up with parlaiment members being charged with fraud and such...

Total crap >.>
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#3 Bishop

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 01:34 PM

I got one similar to that - it's trash.

#4 Rappy_Ninja

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 05:18 PM

those are comman scams


always say they give you some massive ammount of money :P
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#5 sayadin

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 05:50 PM

you have a pen pal!!!
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#6 MCM

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 06:39 PM

yeah they are scams, i don't remember the number name for it, i get about one a week
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#7 Trevayne

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 08:03 PM

This is one of the many, many Nigerian email scams. I get about 10 a week if I turn off my spam filter.

For a great attempt to turn the tables on the scammers, take a look at this:

http://spl.haxial.net/nigerian-fraud/
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#8 Vodka

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 09:34 PM

What if those types of e-mails get sent to your internet account and ya use outlook for it. Is there a way to turn the spamming off?
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#9 jurian

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 09:40 PM

how did they ever get my e-mail? and i assumed it was a scam just this was a new way of doing it to me :P
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#10 MCM

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 09:51 PM

have you signed up for anything a while before hand? i didn't get them till i had to change my address for my loan people and decieded to do it over the internet
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#11 Stotic

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Posted 11 November 2004 - 04:59 AM

secretary of state in mining?
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#12 Ryuku

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Posted 11 November 2004 - 09:42 AM

Nice link, I like the bottom part.

#13 jurian

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Posted 11 November 2004 - 12:28 PM

lol i know hoiw you get spam and stuff i jsut ahven't signed up for anything ina ges so that's why i wondered what was going on :P
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#14 JLH

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Posted 11 November 2004 - 10:57 PM

they are called "419 scams"
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#15 Stealthy One

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Posted 21 November 2004 - 06:24 AM

Lol. I get those all the time. Check out my set replies to them :P Ofcourse you alter some parts for the specific email.

http://www.ace.elect...on.com/scam.htm

***Note contains swearing and abusive language so don't view if you are easily offended***

Also - I did not write this. It was a freind!

Edited by Stealthy One, 21 November 2004 - 06:31 AM.


#16 Dan

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 11:14 PM

They get your email from chat rooms and junk and the ever loved Spider programs

#17 Xlithan

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 01:32 AM

They get your email from chat rooms and junk and the ever loved Spider programs

and from the nightmist forum.




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