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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: "MS KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA" <kimakima@techemail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kimaeva111@netscape.com
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:16:56 +0300
Subject: MS KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA

Dear sir/madam,

I am Kimaeva 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 US$423M
for us. My Boss got arrested for his involvement on
politics in 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 posed treat to
President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian
president before he was reelected 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 frozen 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 transaction?

As soon as I get your willingness to assist us in this
deal, I will give you more details. Thank you very much.


Regards

Ms. Kimaeva Lioudmila

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