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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: "FROM PETRACOV ALLEG" <petracovalleg7@netscape.net>
Reply-To: petracovalleg@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:35:40 +0100
Subject: FROM PETRACOV ALLEG

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am MR.Petracov Alleg the personal accountant 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$42M 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 re-elected On March 14, 2004.You can catch more of the story on
this websites

<<http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html>>>
<<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/10/18/041.html>>>
<<http://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/10/18/yuganskneftegaz.shtml>>>
<<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/9950187.h>>>
<<<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3753804.stm>>>
The fund (US$42M) 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 freeze all the
accounts in my boss name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) both corporate
and personal and have on the 18th of October 2004 decided to
sell off the assets of all Yukos Oil corporation at a give-away
amount to pay the allege taxes which the company owed the
Russian Government. Refer to the website again. Everybody in
the world know that this is a political vendetta to ensure
that Mikhail Khodorkovsky comes out of detention as poor and
broken man and his companies are liquidated, that if he is not

eventually sent to jail for tax evasion. The Accountant General
of YUKOS OIL (Who is also my partner in this transaction)
and I have decided 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 payments when they got the news that my boss was
arrested and might eventually be jailed by the Russian
Government.

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 bank will need
to transfer the sum to you. The transaction has to be concluded
before as soon as possible. You will be rewarded with 10% of
the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on
this? If this proposal is acceptable to you, Please send me
your Direct and private, telephone and fax number and email
address to enable me furnish you with more information as
we intend to conclude the transfer within 14 working days.
N/B: DO MAKE DIRECT CONTACT TO ME VIA THIS EMAIL
ADDRESS:(petracovalleg@mailyukos.com <javascript:parent.ComposeTo(>)

Regards
Mr. Petracov Alleg







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