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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: "Daniel Moi Jr." <dm26111@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:32:17 +0100
Subject: Re: Trust!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

For your kind attn:

Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy.

I am Daniel Moi Jr, the son of the former president of Kenya Mr. Daniel Arap Moi.
I came to know you in the course of my search for a reliable person. I decided to
contact you because I believe you are a 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,
Mr. Arap Moi, was the former president of Kenya, In East Africa. During his reign as
the president, he was involved 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 for a deposit of US$76,000,000.00 (Seventy Six Million United
States Dollars) to this company which never existed. The company has since been declared
bankrupt while the funds have been deposited with a security company in Europe where it
is kept for safekeeping.

For more information you can visit these websites:
(1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm
(2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3025878.stm

The above fund has since been shared amongst the directors of GOLDENBERG COMPANY and my
father. My father's share comes to US$7.2M. I, being the only child of my mother who is
the 6th wife to my father the (ex-president), has been given all documentation about this
transaction as settlement for my mother and myself. The money is kept in the vaults of the
security company and was registered as family valuables, thus there is nobody that knows
that it is money that is in the box. All the documents with which the money was deposited
are in the custody of my mother.

We are therefore soliciting for your assistance as a honest and trustworthy person that
would be willing and capable to travel to Europe to receive the trunk box of money on our
behalf from the security company. For this noble assistance we are willing to offer 20% of
total amount to you.

Please indicate your willingness to assist us by responding positively to this message. We
are expecting to hear from you. Please contact me only through this confidential email
address dm261111@yahoo.co.uk.

Best Regards

Daniel Moi Jr.

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