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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 Arap Moi" <GArapm@jumpy.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: GArapm01@postino.at
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:37:56 +0000
Subject: Please I need your sincere help

Dear Sir/Madam,

Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy.

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 person whom I can have a honest and private discussion with.

I decided to contact you because I believe you are a reputable person that can help me and my mother over this confidential matter and I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to handle this Business for us.

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 and Canadian 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, Canada, 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 American Dollars) to this company which never existed.

The company has since been declared bankrupt while the funds have been deposited with a security company outside my country 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 2st wife to my father the (ex-president), has been given all documentation about this transaction as settlement for my mother and myself. The money which is kept with the security company was registered as precious substances, thereby concealing it's original content.

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 to help us receive fund and invest it pending the investigation of my person which is going on now.

We are willing to offer you 20% of the total amount and please be aware that there will be no problem associated with this as there is no one in my country that knows about this besides me and my mother.

Please indicate your willingness to assist us by responding immediately to this message.

Best Regard,
Gideon Arap moi

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