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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: inna mikhail <myinnamk@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:28:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: INFORMATION REQUIRED TO COMMENCE/CONTACT ME ASAP



Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME,
Thank you very much for your response to my email. Like I said in my first letter, I am representing Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (M.K.) my husband and would like to ask for your partnership in re-profiling funds over US$150 million. I sent your response to my husband and have received the authority to proceed with you, and get some clarifications both ways.
Before I am able to give out the information that will enable you access confidential data of the consignments deposit of my husband with a security company in europe, I would need some information as follows:
(1) What is your net worth?
(2) If you have problems, do they affect your activites you undertake with us as an individual rather than a corporate entity?
(3) Have you handled large funds, and successfully?
All the answers will be kept very confidential. I must explain why we are asking these questions: If you do have existing profile problems, we may end up inheriting your backlog thus creating a problem where none exist. We intend to liquidate a large investment, and take the capital appr. derivative to provide a new investment fund, under your management, for future investments, thus negating any requirements for taxation or declaration of process for income generation. However, if you do have issues prior to this, it puts anything you do in the
light, and thus puts us in uncomfortable situation.
As you see, our assets are frozen in switzerland, and while we have excess of USD5b lying there, we are unable to liquidate them, or use them as guarantee for payment of the USD3.5b backtaxes inflicted on my husband and business partners by the government. If the situation does not improve, we shall be bankrupt before the end of forth quarter next year. The funds being liquidated arise from independent investments of the group, outside the russian soil, so we can legitimately do so, only if this is done quietly. If the authorites hear about this, we shall have to tender it for hearing in international judicial systems, and that will kill us.
Hence answer the questions in honesty, and let us know we are comfortable with you. We are trying to ensure that you do not put us in any trouble, and likewise, we shall provide you with an input as an entity with no history to the investment, only as a management consultant. Everybody must be safe now and in the future, hence the questions. I am sure you know of my family predicaments presently. This is why we need your help I received your positive position hence this email to you based on his advice. I am sure you are up to date with My husband and Mr. Putin. Mr.Putin is intent in destroying M.K and his business empire.
We are working to get a break from the courts to reduce the jail terms and we will need all the cash call we can muster to hold our head above waters in the coming days. The consigments with the security company is one of our arms yet to be infected by the Moscow led fed tax offensive designed to bring us down and we need you to help us keep it so. We need funds from this consignments and we can not get the funds on our own without arousing moscow.
To avoid this we need to completely reprofile the funds from our europe security portfolio in your name so as to turn away Moscow and their ally from us.The complete amount available for you for reprofiling is presently over $150m and the 4% still stands.
To conclude this deal, we will need to document you as the beneficiary of the consignment and also issue a "Letter of Authority" with you as the beneficiary of the consignment. But in order to do this, you will have to furnish me with the following informations for documentation purposes.
(a) Name of beneficiary (You)
(b) Sex
(c) Place of work/designation.
(d) Place of birth/nationality
(e) International Travellers' passport (for Identification purpose)
(f) Private telephone number /fax number (for easy access to you)
Please note that the need for an international passport is anchored on the requirement for you to travel down to Europe in order to secure the delivery of the cash consignment on our behalf. Your gender does not in any way affect our choice of you as a partner. As soon as I receive this information, all necessary act for the movement of the consignment will be made and hopefully within the next 7 working days we would have been smiling for a job well done.
I will also suggest you visit these news sites on the internet to be
better informed about this projet.
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
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/khodorkovskyinterview.html
http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/75/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=75&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=M1IF&datatype=Person
http://mikhail_khodorkovsky_society.blogspot.com
http://www.supportmbk.com/pressroom/11_16-22.cfm
While I wait to hear from you, my warm regards go to you and your family.
Regards,
Mrs Inna Khordorkovsky.

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