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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!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "jerryoffering@terra.es" <jerryoffering@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:52:32 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Dear Sir/ Ma



Dear Sir/ Ma


Since the Russian government have decided that the Russian richest oil tycoon, MR. MIKHAIL who was sentenced to eight years inprisoment on tax evasion and fraud charges, needed medical attention in his prison custody, then I have been a medical doctor and consultant to the presidential house was assigned by the presidency to be given every
medical attention to MR.MIKHAIL in his prison custody, who is ashmatic and has cadiarc arrest in jail.

With this great opportunity,I became the closest person to MR.MIKHAIL as no body was given the opportunity to visit him in jail. Based on this fact,as i often visit him in jail for medical treatment and attention,we usually have confidential chats in respect of his hiden investments out side the country,before his transfer to the solidarity prison camp in Russia,due to the trust and cofident he has in me,he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of fourty five million five hundred thousand million united states dollars(U.S$45.5M) in a security/finance firm in Russia.

The government of Russia has confiscated all his bank accounts and valuable investements such as his yukos oil empire etc,due to this he instructed me to search for a hornest and reliable partner outside Russia who will assist him in safe keeping of this said funds for the duration of his jail term,before the russian government will discover this funds
in the present place of deposit in Russia.

Sequel to this we urgently seek for your assistance in safe keeping this funds as you will be compensated with twenty percent(20%) of this said fund. according to him you also stand a chance of investing fifty percent(50%) of this sum in your investment for the period of eight years MR.MIKHAIL will be free from jail, and five percent(5%) will be disbursed to orphanage homes in your country. for more details visit this website http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-K
hodorkovsky http://www.supportmbk.com/

Finally if you are interested,urgently send me the following datas of yours

1 Full names
2 Contact/residential
3 Phone and fax numbers

Upon the receipt of this informations we will proceed with the transaction immediately.
please reply through my private box (jerry_offering@hotmail.com)

Best Regards

Dr Jerry Offering






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