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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: "GIDEON AARAP MOI" <GIDEONAARAPMOI@YAHOO.COM> (may be fake)
Reply-To: gideonaarapmoi@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:54:05 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

help
Greetings

I am Gideon Arap moi,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 and GOD fearing partner,and i decided to contact you ,Because i believe you are a reputable person and i feel you can help.
Me and my mother over this confidential matter.i count on your intergrity 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 had so many monetary dealing with a lot of European companies in my country and out side my country.And he uses these companies as a means of transferring fund to foreign account in Europe,America and Asia countries.all these fund where gotten from the sale of GOLD and DIAMOND.
Amongst the companies he registered was GOLDENBERG COMPANIES.which he used as front for fund deposite,he made a transfer of $76,000,000.(Seventy six million America Dollar)to this company which nerver existed ,the said company has since been declared bankruptcy and liquidated,and the said funds has been deposited with a security company in Europe where it is keep for safekeeping.
For more information you can click on this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm or
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3025878.stm%.
And as the only child of my mother who is the 6th wife to my father.the president, he has given to us as our own shared which is this funds that is with the security company in Europe.The money is kept in trunk boxes and was registered as precious substances,thus there is nobody that know that it is money that is in the box.All the documents with which the money was deposited is with us(my mother and I)i am looking for somebody that is capable and willing to travel to any part of Europe to received the two trunk boxes of money on behalf of my mother and I from the security company.we need a trust worthy and experience person that will help us to invest this money in your country and take us as one family and will also buy a house for us over there where we can live safely.we are expecting to hear from you, please contact me on my confidential email address :Thanks for your anticipated co-operation,please include your Telephone/fax number on your repily.

Best Regards
Gideon Arap moi.

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