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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • tashagutseriyev92@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • tashagutseriye@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: mrs.tashagutseriyev111@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:44:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR URGENT ASSISTANT IS REQUIRED


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: tashagutseriyev92@yahoo.com



- Greetings, Forgive my indignation if this message got to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for being contacted without your prior consent and writing through this channel. In a brief introduction, I am Mrs. Tasha A. Gutseriyev, the wife of Russian multi billionaire Mr. Mikhail Gutseriyev's, the former owner of Russneft Oil Company in Russia, an integrated and advance growing industry, which makes a net capital close to Three Billion Dollars annually. Some few month back, my husband was forced to resign as the owner of the company because of an allegation laid upon them over a 'surplus' 60,000 metric tons of oil produced by a company subsidiary, adding that next to the 15 million tons of the company's annual output in 2006, it was a very small amount compare to what other companies owned by the past president loyalist makes annually. This whole problems stem from my husband's conflict with the Kremlin and the reluctance to sell his company. He set himself on!
a collision course with the Kremlinby buying ome of the embattled oil company Yukos' assets shortly before it was declared bankrupt. As a result of the allegation, all our accounts were frozen and properties confiscated except for a profiling amount of USD$100 Million in cash, properly insured and sealed under the UN diplomatic core, which my husband starched with a depository firm in Europe for our future upkeep in the case of such matters and now that we are in currently seeking refuge in a very confidential location, he asked me to source for a God fearing individual who will stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum and also make immediate preparations to relocate us once the funds are secured. For your assistance in embarking on this task for us, you will receive 25% of the total funds once the transaction is completed. If you know you can do this, contact me via my private box: tashagutseriye@gmail.com so that I can furnish you with more details. I await your !
reply, Regards, Mrs. Tasha A. Gutseriyev.

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