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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Jack Dallas" <jack_dallas15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jack_dallas@tlen.pl
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:35:40 -0400
Subject: Personally to you,



I am contacting you due to the recent sentencing of my associate and boss
Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky for 9 years imprisonment. I am Mr. Jack Dallas
international consultant, and we still firmly believe in his innocence, but
recent turn of events has made us realise that my boss in many respect
obviously had more powerful enemies than he realised.

It seems that this political trial before a kangaroo court has come to a
shameful conclusion. It is obvious that the conclusion of the trial was
pre-determined politically and Mr. Khodorkovsky could have been left at home
and the trial could have been conducted without the prison circus.
Mr. Khodorkovsky's problem is that becoming one of the oligarch class can be
a murky business. After running a computer import business under the wing of
the Communist Party's youth movement in the 1980s and starting Menatep bank
in 1987, he used the proceeds to buy up state assets.

One was fertiliser company Apatit, which he acquired in 1994.A year later he
snapped up Yukos for $300m, with Menatep assuming $2bn in debt. At its peak
the oil firm set its own worth at more than $20bn.

It is not worth as much now - after a tax audit, Yukos is facing back tax
bills for billions of US dollars, has had its assets seized and its most
productive unit acquired at a bargain rate by state-owned oil firm Rosneft.

Acting under his instructions, an account is needed overseas where I can
arrange for the transfer of funds once all the documents are sorted out.
Thereafter, I planned to destroy all related documents for this account. I
cannot disclose the amount involve at this time

Now my questions are:-
1. Can you handle this project? (The amount in questions is huge)
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer.

Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. This was our plan B,
to plan for Mr. Khodorkovsky's future. The sentence had to be long enough so
Khodorkovsky was in jail in 2008, at the next presidential elections so he
will not be eligible to take part, which was the initial fear before all
this began.

I am sure I do not need to inform you about the extreme confidentiality of
this transaction.



Yours sincerely

Jack Dallas

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otherwise protected from disclosure. It is solely intended for the person(s)
named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, use,
disclosure, copying or distribution of all or parts of this e-mail or
associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended
recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message
or by telephone and delete this e-mail and any attachments permanently from
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