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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "JOE NEYER" <joeneyer@narek.tv>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:06:46 -0800
Subject: YUKOS OIL.

YUKOS OIL.

PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
I am Joe Neyer, based in Amsterdam the Netherlands, Former Personal/
Corporate Legal Adviser to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia
and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian
Largest Oil Company)
Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution
with its branches all over the world). I seek your partnership to
accommodate the sum US$45M (Forty five Million United States Dollars) for
us. Mikhail Khodorkovsky got
arrested for his involvement on politics in financing the leading and
opposing political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris
Nemtsov , and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor
Yavlinsky) which posed treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as
Russian president before he was re-elected On March 14, 2004. You can
catch more of the story on
this;http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://www.supportmbk.com/mbk/mbk_bio.cfm
http://www.disinfopedia.
org/wiki.phtml?title=Mikhail_B._Khodorkovsky The fund (US$45M) in
question was approved by the Government of Russia for payment of
various
YUKOS OIL contractors/suppliers to prevent them from loosing the money
they invested in the numerous contracts they executed for the above
firm.
The Government had already concluded plans to frozen all the accounts
in Mikhail Khodorkovsky,s name both corporate and personal before I
connived with
the Accountant General of YUKOS OIL (who is also my partner in this
transaction) to raise a memo stating that YUKOS OIL own contractors the
above amount which was finally approved for payment after some
deliberations.
Actually, we have paid all our Contractors both local and foreign
because they agitated for their payment when they had that my boss were
arrested.
YOUR ROLE:
I will present you / your company as one of the contractors we are
owing so
that you can stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum or PART
of the fund according to your financial strength or the strength of
your company. I will arrange for the documentation that the payee bank
will need to transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to
relocate to Asia
continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded as soon as possible.
You will be
rewarded with 30% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my
partner on this? As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will
give you more details.If you are really interested contact me on my
private e-mail
address..

[joeneyer@mynet.com]

Thank you very much.

Best regards

JOE NEYER


YUKOS OIL

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