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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: "Comrade Vladimir Oleg Lebedev" <oleglebedev@msn.com>
Reply-To: tov_lebedev@msn.com
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:19:03 +0000
Subject: ATTN: URGENT RESPONSE REQUIRED.

Dear friend

I am comrade Vladimir Oleg Lebedev personal assistant to Mikhail
Khodorkovsky once rated as the richest man in Russia and owner of YUKOS OIL
(Russian largest oil company), chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (a well
reputable financial institution with its branches all over the world).

SOURCE OF FUNDS:

I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$100.5M, which I seek you to
accommodate for me. You will be rewarded with 4% of the total sum for your
partnership. Can you handle this?

As his personal assistant, I was authorized to transfer money of an American
oil merchant for his last oil deal with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The funds have since left the shores of America to a European private
financial institution where the final crediting is to be carried out. While
I was on the process, my boss got arrested for his involvement in politics
by 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 as a threat to President Vladimir
Putin Second Tenure as Russian president. Since then, I have placed on hold
all transactions concerning this amount. You can catch more of the story on
this website:

http://www.yukos.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
http://news.ft.com/cms/4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
http://www.hoovers.com/yukos/--ID__53700--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

YOUR ROLE:

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the abovementioned sum
and I will re-profile the funds with your name, which will enable the
financial firm transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to
relocate to the American continent and never to be connected to any Of
Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates, presently I am resident in the UK. The
transaction has to be concluded soon and as I confirm your readiness to
conclude the transaction with me, I will provide you with details.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Comrade Vladimir Oleg Lebedev.

PS: you can also reply me at oleg_lebedev@katamail.com

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