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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: "abubakar idris" <kaloma85@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:52:26 +0000
Subject: Happy weekend to you

Dr. Kaloma Abubakar Idris,
61 Leningradsky Prospekt
MOSCOW 125315
Russia.

I am Dr. Kaloma Abubakar Idris, former employee of Yukos Oil Corporation in
Russia, One of Russian's Largest Oil Company.

I was a contract payment officer before the production unit of Yukos
oil was sold.Due to the arrest and the conviction of the
president/C.E.O. of Yukos oil Mr. Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, I was able
to divert the contract payment of one of our contractors- Dap
Pipelines Corporation, to a Finance firm in Europe.This contract sums
amounts to US$21,000,000.00.(Twenty-one Million United states dollars
only).This money was packaged as consignment and lifted to the Finance
firm, after payment approval was issued to Dap Pipelines Corporations
in Russia.This application and approval was fronted by me to the
appropriate authorities, so that I can get approval to disburse the
money which was inventually diverted to Europe.I want you to know that
this is a Top secrete and it should be treated as CONFIDENTIAL as no
one is aware of this except me and your very self.

You can read more about Yukos Oil Incorporations and the convicted
Boss,Mr. Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky in the below internet links.
http://www.supportmbk.com/mbk/mbk_bio.cfm
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mikhail_B._Khodorkovsky

Approvals issued to Dap Pipelines Corporation From Yukos oil and The
Federal Ministry of Finance of Russia are available for your perusal.
These approval enabled me in getting the money and eventually
diverting and packaging it to the Finance firm in Europe in my
name.Since the Conviction of Mr. Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky for tax
evation, the rest top rank staff like myself have been on the Russian
government search-light. As a result of this it is not safe for me to
travel to Europe to recieve this funds myself.This is because I could
be tailed and traced. Therefore I require you to assist me in the
receipt of this money for safekeeping and onward investment of the
funds.

Your share for this assistance will be 35% of the total
US$21,000,000.00.If you are ready to help me, I will let you have the
details of the Finance firm in Europe so that you can commence
communication with them. I will also get you a POWER OF ATTORNEY to
give you the legal authority to recieve the money on my behalf. I will
also get you a CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT in your name from the Finance
firm to make you the bonafide owner of the consignment.Send your
contact address and your private telephone and fax numbers for the
commencement of the procees of you getting the money.

Get in touch soonest with the above details so that I can give you
further details on how to recieve the money.


Regards,
Dr. kaloma Abubakar Idris,

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