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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:
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • alyonamisamoore@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "alyona.misamore@terra.es" <alyona.misamore@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:50:18 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: URGENT PARTNERSHIP REQUIRED!!!



PLEASE FOR CONFIDENTIALITY REASONS CONTACT ME THROUGH MY SECURED EMAIL ADDRESS: alyonamisamoore@yahoo.com.hk

Dear Partner,

Good day and compliments. This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future and continued existence of the entire members of my family. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Mrs. Alyona Misamore the wife of Mr. Bruce K. Misamore the former personal chief financial treasurer to Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky the Richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its?Branches all over the
world).

SOURCE OF FUNDS: my husband has a profiling amount in an excess of $100,000,000 dollar (one hundred million dollar) which we seek your partnership in accommodating for us. You will be rewarded with 20% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be our partner on this? Already the funds have left the shore of Russia through diplomatic means to a European holding firm where the final crediting is expected to be carried out.


While my husband was on the process, his boss 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://www.supportmbk.com

http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm

http://www.newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://www.newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-khodorkovsky
http://www.newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

YOUR ROLE: All we need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum and once your acceptance is received, the funds will be re-profiled to your name to enable the vault firm transfer the sum to you. My family and I have decided to use this sum to relocate to your country if you can help us secure this funds and never to be connected to any of Mikhail khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded within 5 to 10 working days as soon as I confirm your readiness to conclude the transaction with me.


Contact me via my private box: alyonamisamoore@yahoo.com.hk. so that I can furnish you with more details.

Thank you very much,

Regards,
Mrs. Alyona Misamore.





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