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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • jmkim1943@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Prof.Jong Moo Kim" <jongmookim020@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jongmookim@excite.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:41:01 +0100
Subject: RE: FROM PROF.JONG MOO KIM !!!


Dear Sir,

I am Prof. Jong Moo Kim a personal Freind and adviser to Mikhail
Khodorkovsky Chairman CEO of the following companies: YUKOS OIL "one of
Russian Largest Oil Company" Menatep SBP Bank.

SOURCE OF FUNDS:

I have a profiling amount in an excess of 90,500,000 dollar (Ninety million
Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars) which I seek your Partnership
in accommodating for me.You will be rewarded with a good percentage of the
total sum for your partnership.

INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF As a personal consultant to him, authority Was
handed over to me in transfer of money of an American oil merchant For his
last oil deal with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Already the funds have left
the shore of Russia to an European private Bank where the final crediting
is expected to be carried out. While I was on the process, My Boss/Friend
got arrested for his Involvement in politics by 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 poses treat to President
Vladimir Putin Second Tenure as Russian president. You can catch more of the
story on This website:

http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://news.ft.com/cms/4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
http://www.hoovers.com/yukos/--ID__53700--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

YOUR ROLE:
All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the Above quoted Sum
and I will re-profile the funds with your name,which will enable The
European bank transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to
relocate to American continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail
khodorkovsky conglomerates.

The transaction has to be concluded in 7 to 14 bank working days from when
you have indicated your interest towards this transaction and also my
confirmation of your readiness to conclude the transaction with me. Get back
to me once you are intreseted throug my private email: jmkim1943@excite.com.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Prof. Jong Moo Kim [Mr]

Private E-mail: jmkim1943@excite.com

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