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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • wang8@btinternet.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Larisa Nitskaya" <larnits5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: wang8@btinternet.com
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:35:18 -0500
Subject: Yours Sincerely.

Dear Friend,

I am contacting you for this important proposal which needs to be concluded with urgency without delay, and my wish is that you do not turn it down rather give it an important attention please. My name is Mrs. Larisa Nitskaya. Personal Secretary to Mr. Boris Mikhail Khodorkovsky the arrested Chairman/CEO of Yukos Oil and Bank Manatep SPB in Russia.

I have the documents of a large amount of funds which he handed over to me before he was detained and now been tried in Russia for financing political parties (The Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) opposed to the government of Mr. Vladmir Puti, the president thereby leading to the freezing of his finances and assets. After searching through the books of your country’s chambers of commerce and industries here in Russia I amcontacting you to assist me to re-profile the funds and equally invest it on his behalf.

The total amount of the funds to be re-profiled is two hundred and sixteen united state dollars (US$216,000,000.00), this payment will be made to you as payment for work executed for this company (Yukos Oil Corporation-Russia) and you will be paid 5% for your management and services.

As soon as I get your willingness to comply in my most private Email address:( wang8@btinternet.com ) I will give you more details.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Larisa Nitskaya.

NB: YOU CAN READ MORE OF HIS ORDEAL FROM:

http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11261041
http://www.supportmbk.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4041115.stm
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-Khodorkovsky

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