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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)
  • ",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)
  • "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)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • larisak@postinbox.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Larisa Sosnitskaya" <larisk52@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:40:44 -0100
Subject: Think about this

Dear Friend,

I am contacting you with due respect in regards to an urgent issue
which I hereby seek your utmost confidence. My name is Mrs. Larisa
Sosnitskaya, treasurer to Mr. Boris Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the
arrested former chairman/ceo of Yukos oil and bank Menatep Spb in
Russia.

I have the documents of a large amount of funds which he handed over
to me before he was detained and sentenced in Russia for financing
political parties opposed to the government of Mr. Vladmir Putin, 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 am contacting you to assist
me to re-profile the funds and equally invest same on my behalf. The
total amount of funds to be re-profilled is (USD$46,000,000.00) you
will be paid 20% for your assistance and management services.

As soon as I receive your acceptance through my personal email
address:larisak@postinbox.com

I will provide you with further details.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Larisa Sosnitskaya

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

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam