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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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From: Dom May <dommay01@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:56:35 +0100 (BST)
Subject: sorry for the late reply from Dom May to suzie.


Dear suzie,
Thanks so much for your mail. I am the attorney to Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Please as a gentleman of good standing allow me not disclose
names until you meet my representative after we
complete project. Here are the complete details,read
it carefully and reply immediately. Like I said in my first
letter, I am representing Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky
(m.k.) and would like to ask for your partnership
in re- profiling funds over US$450 million
I sent our current conversational status to Moscow
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-pages of the Yukos
investment portfolio in the bank account in
Gibraltar, I would need some information as
follows:
(1) What is your net worth?
(2) If you have problems, do they affect the
activites you undertake with us as an individual
rather than a corporate entity?
(3) Have you handled large funds, and
successfully?
(4) Can you travel to holland within short
notice of say three days?
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 appreciation
derivatived 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
usby the government in Russia. It is obvious that the
situation will not improve, and we are expected to
announce bankruptcy before the end of the year. The
government is selling our core subsidiaries to
their cronies, hence what ever the outcome of the ongoing
trial of Mr. Khodorkovsky it is sure that Yukos
will be dead. The funds being liquidated arise from independent
investments of the Yukos group, outside the
russiansoil, 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 confortable 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
managemet consultant. Everybody must be safe now
and in the future, hence the questions.
I am sure you know of our predicarments presently,
this is why we need your help. Mr. president Putin
is intent in destroying m.k and his business empire,
We are working to get a break from the courts and we
will need all the cash call we can muster to hold our
head above waters in the coming days. The Gibraltar
portfolio 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 portfolio and we can not get the
funds on our own without arousing moscow. To avoid
this we need to completely reprofile the funds from
Gibraltar 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
$500m and the 2% we promised to pay you still
stands.
The new beneficiaries of the portfolio will need to
communicate with our bankers in Gibraltar to
offset the back taxes to the authorites in Gibraltar and
move the funds online over the internet through a
dedicated confidential bank access that I will
obtain from Moscow through existing channel of
communications. We will need your company identity
to replace that of Yukos subsidiaries and reprofile
the portfolio accordingly, I am willing to let you
access the investment porfolio online (bank account
access) if you indicate that you can be trusted enough to
keep the information to yourself as a secret.If all
works well and we have a perfect agreement signed and
sealed, then I will give you a "code" to
communicate with our bankers online to move the capital
appreciation funds (the funds
that has no international lien)out of the
portfolio in Gibraltar to any bank account of your choice as
a management consultant.
We will require you to move the funds to another
account we will provide you in monte carlo and you
keep the 5% of the capital appreciation funds as
agreed. please write back promptly.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?
I wait your response,
Best Regards
Dom May

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