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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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Fraud email example:

From: "tom eleri brown" <kimzmila@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: tbro.eleri@lycos.co.uk
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:31:17 +0100
Subject: Best Regards

Dear Friend,

I am Ms. KIMAEVA Z. LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary 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 of US$423M for us. My Bossgot
arrested for his involvement in politics in financing the Leading and opposing
political party (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?s 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

The fund (US$423M) 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 freez
all the accounts in my boss name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) 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 owe 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 was 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 which the payee bank
will need to transfer the sum 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 as soon as possible.You will be rewarded with 10% of
the total sum for your partnership. Can you be our partner on this transacton?

As soon as I get your willingness to assist us in this deal, I will Give
you more details. Please reply me with this email address: kimzmila@post.cz

Thank you very much.

KIMAEVA Z. LIOUDMILA



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