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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA." <kimaneva@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kimanoeva@netscape.net
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:05:26 +0100
Subject: PARTNER

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Ms. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary 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$36m
(thirty Six Million United States Dollars) for us.

My Boss 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 reelected On March 14, 2004.
You can catch more of the story on this
<http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html>

The fund (US$36M) 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
my boss name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) 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 one of the
contractors we are owing 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 which the payee insurance company in Amsterdam (Holland) will need to
transfer the sum to you. We have decided (Myself and
the accountant) 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 before as soon as possible. You
will be rewarded with 30% of the total sum for your
partnership. Can you be my partner on this?
Please Note, that you are to accept only the amount
which your company or personal account can receive in
order to avoid suspicion, however, not more than $17
Million can be approved at a time hence you are able
to accommodate more than this amount.

As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will
give you more details. Thank you very much. Please
send your reply to: kimanoeva@netscape.net </ym/Compose?To=kimanoeva@netscape.net> for
confidential reasons.

Regards

MS. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA.

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