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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: "arshad khanali" <arshad_khan_007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: da_arshad007@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:04:46 +0000
Subject: CRC SERVICES LLC,

CRC Services LLC,
Westgate House.
100 Wellington Street.
Leeds. LS1 4LT.
United Kingdom
T:44(0)703 190 7091
F:44(0)871 247 1509

Good Day,

I am Mr Arshad Khan Ali,the managing partner of the CRC Services LLC in
United Kingdom.I am a Lawyer representing a client named Mr Lebedev Platon
Leonidovich,the former Managing Director of MENATEP(.An Oil Firm in Moscow
Russian.)

My client Mr Lebedev Platon was arrested on July, 2003 by the government of
Russian on allegation on Tax Evasion and on suspicion of stealing a 20 per
cent stake in the company apatit in 1994 of about $283.14 million.All these
was political manipulations to discredit my client from being the patron of
an opposing political party against the government of President Putin.

My client has been denied medical attention for over 19 months he has been
in custody and despite the numberous medical papers attached to the case
that explicitly testify to the GRAVE CHRONIC ILLNESSES my client has.In
spite of all petitions I have filed before the Office of the
Prosecutor-General.The court refused the petition on the grounds that we
failed to provide new date on the worsening condition of my client's
health.This is a violation of the constitutional rights and applicable
legislation,and still they are accepted unconditionally by the court which
refuses all petitions for an independent medical assessment of my client Mr
P.L. Lebedev.

The greatest shock of this matter is that on February 3 and 4,2005.The
authorities has my client Mr Lebedev break his confidential meetings with me
in DC-77/1(Detention Center Cell) as he has suddenly felt much
worse.However,the detyerioration of his health,the court has consistently
been satisfied with the official health report from the Detention center
Staff.And I pointed out that the medical statement sent from the detention
center to the Meshchansky Court are Formal and failed to reflect the real
condition of Mr Lebedev health as they are based on medical assessment.

Meanwhile,the Director of the Dept for Penal Administration of the Ministry
of Justice of the RF in charge of Moscow-being perfectly aware of the
condition of my client illnesses,gave request to Lebedev medical assessment
by consulting experts on laboratory examination.So clarification shows that
the detention center medical staff currently has zero objective data on Mr
Lebedev's health and therefore has no ground to claim that he feels good
enough to take part in court sessions.

Shortly after the supreme Court ruling,my client was sentence to 9 years
imprisonment and I had to contact the Director of the Russian Research
Center for Human Rights Mrs Liubov Vinogradova whose findings that the bad
influence on the development of Russia.After that the Government crushed the
free press now take control of the executive and the judicial branches.It is
an act of intimidating the big business men that wants to be independent and
we have organised demonstrations for the support and to speed up the process
in the European court.

In view of this development,my client has informed me of his existing funds
lying with some banks in Europe countries amounting to Hundreds of Millions
of Dollars and Euros.I was able to discuss with some of the bank executives
in respect to the closure and transfer of the funds to an escrow account of
some foreign entity.I have been able to reach a consensus a bank who is
willing to help out since most account of my client have been frozen and
confisticated.

In a Nullshell.I need your assistance in having a sum of Sixteen Million
Dollars ($US16,000,000.00) with a renown bank in Europe transfer to your
account without any risk.And we have devise a plan to ensuring a smooth 100%
risk free transaction.

I would like to hear from you if ONLY you are interested and possibly we can
arrange how I can meet with you to discuss on the modalities.Kindly send me
your full name or company's name,phone number(Mobil Phone) and fax number.

Best regards,
Arshad Khan Ali
AMBICs DIPsm MIIRSM AFRM FinstD LLB



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