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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA" <kimliou@kimliou.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:48:41 +0000
Subject: HELLO ANTON VAN LITH



Dear Anton,
 
I am in receipt of your email, Dear Anton Van Lith,Immediately I got
your email, I gave up search for a reputable personnel of your
calibre. And I Believe strongly within me that you are capable of the
transaction without any misappropriation. I  will need us to do this
business deal clean and fast without it attracting third party until
we are through with the transaction and when i come over to your country for the
percentage sharing as discussed. If I may ask? Do you have an account
that can accommodate this funds without it being tax? or do you have
a treasury where the funds can  be safe? As you can see, I am not
selfish with the percentage.
 
Thus, I will need your prompt attention to every details and you must
assure me that you will do your possible best until the finalisation of
the contract between both of us before coming down to your country for
the person sharing. All this ought not to take more than A WEEK and
FOUR DAYS. ok?
 
Thanks once more for your prompt reply to my mail, I am very willing
to forge ahead with you. Like I said in my first letter,I am
representing Mr.Mikhail Khodorkovsky (m.k.) and would like to ask for
your partnership in re-profiling funds over US$11.2million I sent our
current conversational status to london and have received the
authority to proceed with you, and get some clarifications both ways.
Before I am able to give out the information that will enable you
access confidential data-pages of mikhail,I would need some
information as follows:
 
(1) What is your net worth?
(2) If you have problems, do they affect your activities you undertake
with us as an individual rather than a corporate entity?
(3) Have you handled large funds, and were successfully?
(4) Can you travel to London within the short notice of say three days?
 
All the answers will be kept very confidential. I must explain why we
are asking these questions:
If you do have existing profile problems, we may end up inheriting
your backlog thus creating a problem where none exist.We intend to
liquidate a large investment, and take the capital app.derivative to
provide a new investment fund, under your management,for future
investments, thus negating any requirements for taxation or
declaration of process for income generation.
 
However, if you do have issues prior to this, it puts anything you do
in the light, and thus puts us in uncomfortable situation. As you see,
our assets are frozen in Switzerland, and while we have excess of
USD5b lying there, we are unable to liquidate them, or use them as
guarantee for payment of the USD3.5b back taxes inflicted on us by the government.
If the situation does not improve, we shall be bankrupt before the end of forth quarter of
 this year.
 
The funds being liquidated arise from independent investments of the
group, outside the Russian soil, so we can legitimately do so, only if
this is done quietly. If the authorities hear about this, we shall
have to tender it for hearing in international judicial systems, and
that will kill us.
 
Hence answer the questions in honesty, and let us know we are
comfortable with you. We are trying to ensure that you do not put us
in any trouble, and likewise, we shall provide you with an input as an
entity with no history to the investment,only as a management
consultant.
 
Everybody must be safe now and in the future, hence the questions. I
represent Mr.Mikhail khordokovsky,the former C.E.O of Yukos in Russia.I
am sure you know of his predicaments presently. This is why we need
your help,I received your positive position hence this email to you
based on his advice. I am sure you are up to date with m.k and
Mr.putin. Mr. p is intent in destroying m.k and his business empire,
we are working to get a break from the courts and we will need all the
cash call we can muster to hold our head above waters in the coming
days. The Gibraltar portfolio is one of our arms yet to be infected by
the Moscow led fed tax offensive designed to bring us down and we need
you to help us keep it so. We need funds from
this portfolio and we cannot get the funds on our own without arousing
your effort. To avoid this we need to completely reprofile the funds
in your name.
 
 The complete amount available for you for reprofiling is presently
over $11.2m and the 40% still stands. The new beneficiaries of the
portfolio will need to offset the back taxes to the authorities in
Gibraltar and move the funds online over the internet through a
dedicated confidential bank access that I will obtain from m.k in
through existing channel of communications.
 
Once I get your name or company name, address, for identity to replace
that of m.k and re profile the portfolio accordingly, then I will get
the bank access across to you to access the portfolio, pay the back
taxes to the authorities and move the funds to another account we will
provide you in and you keep the 40% as agreed.Please write back
promptly. I will also suggest you visit these news sites on the
Internet to be better informed about this project.
 
 
Yours truly
Miss Kim.











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