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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: "fred arap moi" <fredarapmoi@tiscali.it>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:45:25 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Sir,

Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy.I am Fred

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 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 (SeventySix Million American Hard Currency) 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 website:
(1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm
(2)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3025878.stm

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 trunk boxes and was registered as precious

substances,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 an honest and trustworthy person that would be willing

and capable to travel to Europe to receive the two trunk boxes 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.
Best Regards

Fred Arap Moi


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