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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a "Yukos oil" scam. The criminals who send such emails have no connection to Yukos Oil. The emails are usually sent from Nigeria. The only money that ever changes hands in this scam is from you to the criminals.
• 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.
  • info.md02@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • info.md01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mikhail Dzyuban" <info.md02@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:41:47 -1200
Subject: Business Proposal From Mr Mr. Mikhail Dzyuban

Good Day,

My name is Mr. Mikhail Dzyuban, personal secretary to Mr.
Boris Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, the arrested Chairman/CEO of Yukos oil and
bank Menatep
SPB Russia, who is presently in jail.

I am contacting for a very important transaction, I have the
documents
of a large amount of funds which he handed over to me before
he
detained and has been sentenced to jail for taxes evasion
and funds
embezzlements (the union of right forces, led by Mr. Boris
Nemtsov and
Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor
Yavlinsky)
opposed to the government of Mr. Vladmir Putin, the
president thereby
leading to the freezing his finances and assets.

I am contacting you to assist me to re-profile this fund and
equally
invest this fund in your country. The total amount of these
funds to be
re-profiled is forty six million dollars (USD46, 000,000.00)
and you
will be getting 20% for your assistance.
I shall furnish you with necessary information and my
identifications as soon I receive your
acceptance in my private mail box (info.md02@yahoo.com.hk)
I
assure you that thistransaction is 100% risk free as I have
planed out
all modalities to
execute this transaction.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Mikhail Dzyuban

Please note that your response must be sent to my private
email box
(info.md01@yahoo.com)

NB: I advice you read more of this ordeal from:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3042850.stm
http://www.supportmbk.com

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam