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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: "LARISA SOSNITSKAYA" <larisanitskaya6@msn.com>
Reply-To: larisanitskaya6@mail.ru
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:30:31 +0000
Subject: URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL.

Dear friend,

I am Mrs. Larisa Sosnitskaya 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$48.5Million, which I seek you
to accommodate for me. You will be rewarded with 10% 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 finance firm 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
finance/bank release 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. 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.

I look forward to working with you.

Regards,

Larisa Sosnitskaya.

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