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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: "KHOREN PNJOYAN" <khoren_p1@k.ro> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:48:02 +0400
Subject: KHOREN PNJOYAN

From the Desk Of,
Khoren Pnjoyan,
Personal/ Corporate Legal Adviser
Yukos International Oil Corperation.

Attn,
I am Khoren Pnjoyan, Personal/ Corporate Legal Adviser 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$45M (Forty five Million United States Dollars) for us. Mikhail
Khodorkovsky 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 re-elected On March 14, 2004.
Visit the following site for detail:
www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml
www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/29/mbkhnewcharge.shtml
The fund (US$45M) 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 Mikhail Khodorkovsky's name 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 the contractors we owe 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 that the payee bank will need to
transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to relocate to
either American or any business Oriented part of Asia and never to be
connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction
has
to be concluded before as soon as possible. You will be rewarded with
10%
of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?
As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give you more
details.
Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Khoren Pnjoyan,


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