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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please indicate your willingness" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • philiparapmoi2004@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "PHILIP ARAP MOI" <philips.arapmoi@personal.ro> (may be fake)
Reply-To: philiparapmoi2004@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:07:00 +0700
Subject: Urgent Assistance/Investment

Dear Sir/Madam,
Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy.
I am Philip 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 (Seventy Six Million American Hard Currency) to this company which never existed
The company has since been declared bankrupt while part the funds of the sum of 16,000,000.00(sixteen million united states dollars) was diverted then and deposited with a security company in Thailand 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
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 Thailand to receive the two trunk boxes of money on our behalf from the security company.

For this noble assistance we are willing to offer 30% 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: (philiparapmoi2004@yahoo.com) including you contact address phone and fax number"s.
And make sure you do not disclose this to any body fo security reasons
Best Regards,
Philip Arap Moi.

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