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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • peterroman012@yahoo.com
  • peter013@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "peterroman03@terra.es" <peterroman03@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:21:02 +0100 (MET)
Subject: TRUSTWORTHY FRIEND



Am Peter Roman personal treasurer to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies:Chairman CEO:YUKOS OIL (Russian Most Largest Oil Company)Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its branches all over the world) SOURCE OF FUNDS: I have a profiling amount which I seek your partnership in accommodating for me.

You will be rewarded with 10% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?I want to move this money to you, so that you may invest it for me and keep my share in a safety keep,no strings attached. INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF As a personal consultant to him, authority was handed over to me in transfer of money of an American oil merchant for his last oil deal with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Already the funds have left the shore of Russia to a security company in europe where the fund is kept in trunck box with the content undisclosed to the security company.

While I was on the process, My Boss got arrested for his involvement in politics by 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 poses treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president. You can catch more of the story on this website: http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html 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 security company transfer the consignment to you.

I have decided to use this sum to relocate to American continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded before Mikhail Khodorkovsky is out from jail. I plan on using diplomatic courier and shipping the funds out in one silver box, using diplomatic immunity.This Transaction is risk free and has a diplomatic coverage whereby the consignment cannot be checked in port of Entry or Exit,then further details will be sent to you,let me say that "TRUST" should be our major objective in this venture,as you'll be in control of it all,Can you be trusted?GET BACK TO ME THROUGH EMAIL:peterroman012@yahoo.com or peter013@excite.com

kindly send me an e-mail signifying your interest.

Nice to meet you

Peter Roman
personal treasurer





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