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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "keep this confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a "Yukos oil" scam. The criminals who send such emails have no connection to Yukos Oil. The emails are usually sent from Nigeria. The only money that ever changes hands in this scam is from you to the criminals.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • brink_tim@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tim Brinkman" <prestley_33@o2.pl> (may be fake)
Reply-To: brink_tim@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:15:34 +0200
Subject: RESPONSE

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Tim Brinkman and I represent Mr. Mikhail Khordokovsky the former CEO of Yukos Oil Company in Russia. I have a very sensitive and confidential brief from this top (oligarch) to ask for your
partnership in re-profiling funds over US$30 million. I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via GCIB Bank.This is a legitimate transaction. You will be paid twenty percent upon your management fees.

If you are interested, please write back by email to brink_tim@yahoo.es or send a fax to:+709574809900 and provide me with your private telephone/ fax numbers and email address and I will provide further details and procedures. Please keep this confidential; we
can not afford more political problems. Finally, note that this must be concluded within two weeks.Please reply as soon as possible.
you can get more info regarding this transaction on these sites:
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://www.supportmbk.com/mbk/mbk_bio.cfm
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mikhail_B._Khodorkovsky
Please rest be assured that you are not required to pay any fees,we will pay any outstanding fee to get the fund out of Russia to your norminated account.
Regards
Tim Brinkman

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