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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • larisanitskaya100@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?larisa=20Nitskaya?= <larisanitskaya100@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: arisaitskaya@walla.com
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:48:19 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE HELP


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: larisanitskaya100@yahoo.dk




Attn: Sir,


Though this approach appears desperate, difficulties

encountered in efforts to establish a business abroad

necessitate this search for someone to assist me in

securing and investing the sum of USD55,000,000 (Fifty Five Million dollars) deposited in my name abroad.



Am Mrs.Larisa Nitskaya , confidential personal

treasurer to Mr. Boris Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the arrested

Chairman/CEO of Yukos oil and Bank Menatep SPB in Russia. A well reputable financial institution with its branches all over the world.


I am in possession of a vital document of a large

amount of funds which he handed over to me before he was

arrested and detained and now been tried in Russia for financing political parties (the Union of the Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) opposed to the government of Mr. Vladimir Putin the president of Russia and thereby leading to the freezing of his finances and assets. After careful search I am contacting you to assist me to re-profile the funds and equally invest same on my

behalf and you will be paid a commission of 25% for

your services and assistance.


SOURCE OF FUNDS:

I have a profiling amount of USD55M which I seek your

Partnership in accommodating for me. You will be

rewarded as mentioned above with 25% of the total sum for your partnership cooperation. Can you be my partner on

this? As a confidential personal treasurer to him, this amount was handed over to me in Transfer of money for a Canadian-Iraqi dual citizen oil merchant (Mr.Zaid Meerwali) for his last oil deal with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky.While on the process, My Boss

got arrested for his involvement in politics by

financing the Leading and opposing political parties mentioned above which poses treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president.For the fear of been indiacted by the government of Vladimi Putin,I am still in hiding in Russia for security reason I can not move out because my government relentless concern over Mikhail Khodorkovsky associates and recent information confirms to me that Mr. Zaid Meerwali was

recently abducted and murdered for his breach of

agreement with oil barons in Iraq, although he was assumed to have been killed by insurgents in Iraq. However,the funds have already left the shore of Russia to a European

financial firm. You will get more details on this story through this links:


http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11261041

http://www.supportmbk.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4041115.stm

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-Khodorkovsky

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/08/15/1174402-cp.html

http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-56-1409.jspor

http://www.obituariestoday.com/Obituaries/ObitShow.cfm?

Obituary_ID=39706


YOUR ROLE:

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of

the above quoted Sum and I will re-profile the funds with

your name, which will enable the European financial firm

release the funds to you in your name as the new beneficiary to the claims of the funds.I have decided to use this sum to relocate to American continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates and for his family to start life outside Russia.

As soon as I confirm your sincere and timely readiness

to execute this transaction with me, I will contact you

with the details of this project and my identification to

consummate this project.



Your sincere cooperation in this regards, will be duly


appreciated. I look forward to your urgent reply.


Regards



Mrs. Larisa Nitskaya




- larisa Nitskaya

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