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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: "kima ludimila" <lu_kima123@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ludimilak@i12.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:39:06 -0600
Subject: Hello!



Attn: Partner,
It is with warm regards that I contact you base on goodwill and hoping that
as you receive this letter, it will serve to open up a financially
beneficial partnership. I am Kima Ludimila, secretary to Mikhail
Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies:
Chairman CEO:YUKOS OIL (Russian Most Largest Oil Company)Chairman
CEO:Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its
branches all over the world)
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you


SOURCE OF FUNDS:

I found your names in one of our files authorising payment in your name.The
funds are already in your name as i paid an internet search engine to get
your email address. The funds were supposed to be payments to some american
contractor bearing the same names with you.



INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF:

As a personal secretary to him, authority was handed over to me in transfer
of
money of an American oil merchant for his confidential oil deal with my boss
Mikhail Khodorkovsky which was never executed. Already the funds have left
the shore of Russia to Hang send bank where the final crediting is expected
to be carried out. While Iwas 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 poses treat to President Vladimir Putin second
tenure as Russian president.



YOUR ROLE:

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum
and
I will send the recommended payment order the funds with your name, which
will enable the

European bank transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to
relocate to American continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail
Khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded soonest
before
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is out on bail. As soon as I confirm your readiness to
conclude the transaction with me, I will provide you with the details.For
better understanding about Yukos Company tax evasion,please visit the
following
sites.



http://www.yukos.com

http://news.ft.com/cms/4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html

http://www.hoovers.com/yukos/--ID__53700--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4105663

Thank you very much.



Regards

Kima Ludimila[Mrs].

NB: Do contact me through this secure email as i am using this email account
just to send the proposal to you for security reasons.
projectludi@yahoo.com
if not interested please delete treat as spam.


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