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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: "Graham Philip Mbithi" <grahpmt1@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: grahpmt1@excite.com
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:36:03 -0800
Subject: Please Reply

Please Reply
Dear Sir/Madam,

Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy. I am Graham Philip
Mbithi, the son of the president's former head of cabinet(Philip Mbithi)
to Mr. Daniel Arap Moi. The Kenya President. I came to know you in the course
of my search for a reliable and reputable person that can help me and my
mother over this confidential matter. I count on your integrity and honesty
to be able to handle this Business. My father, Philip Mbithi, was the former
head of cabinet to the president of Kenya, Mr. Daniel Arap Moi, in East
Africa. During the reign of the president, my father assisted the President
in a lot of Monetary deals with a lot of European companies within and outside
my country.
These companies where used as a means of transferring funds gotten from
the sales of Gold and Diamonds to foreign accounts in Europe, America and
Asia. Amongst the companies he registered was GOLDENBERG COMPANY, which
he used as front through the help of my father for a deposit of US$76,000,000.00
(Seventy Six Million American Dollars) to these companies . Unfortunately,
the last transaction of another transfer of US$10.2 M (TEN MILLION, TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) by my father to the company' account
could not be completed before the company was declared bankrupt thereby
trapping the fund(US$10.2 M) in a security company in Europe without cliam.
The security company is one of the transit company where the fund is officially
deposited before further transfer to the president company' account, though
unknown to the president that my father use this security company.
For more information you can visit these website:
(1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm
I, being the only child of my mother who is the 4th wife to my father ,
has been given all documentation about this last transaction as settlement
for my mother and myself. The money is kept in trunk box and was registered
as precious substances(personal belongings), thus nobody knows the content
of the boxes.
All the documents with which the money was deposited are in the custody
of my mother. We are therefore soliciting for your assistance as an honest
and trustworthy person that would be willing and capable to travel to Europe
to receive the money on our behalf from the security company.
You may wounder why we will not wait for my father to complete the transaction,even
to another account other than the president company, the reason is that
my father and his entire family members are under a close watch and monitor
by the commission of investigation launched by the new government, and my
father advise that I and my mother must do every possible to ensure that
we have the fund cleared from the securty company before the panel discovery
it.
Please indicate your willingness to assist us by responding positively to
this message.
For this noble assistance we are willing to offer 20% of total amount to
you.
We are expecting to hear from you.
Best Regards,
Graham Philip Mbithi


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