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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: wilsonarapmoi2003@tiscali.it
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:49:58 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE

From: Wilson Arap Moi

Dear Sir,

Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy. I am Wilson 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 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 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 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 and 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. Please contact me only
through this confidential email address: wilsonarapmoi2003@tiscali.it

Best Regard

Wilson Arap moi

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