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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • m.gutseriyev@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mellisa gutseriyev <fredjean@bigpond.com>
Reply-To: megutseriyevws@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:14:36 +1000
Subject: PRIVATE BRIEF




Dear friend,
I know that this mail will get to you as a surprise but it was due to a
matter of necessity i contacted you over a business proposal and
assistance for our relocation. Let me quickly introduce myself, i am Mrs.
Melissa Gutseriyev, the wife of Russian multi billionaire Mr. Mikhail
Gutseriyev's, the owner of Russneft Oil company in Russia, Russneft is an
integrated and advance growing industry in Russia and makes a net capital
close to US$3 Billion annually and just four years ago my husband tried to
purchase the former Yokus Oil, formerly owned by Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovksy,
the richest man in Russia who is currently serving a jail term in Serbia,
Moscow. He was arrested because of 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. Since he was a friend to the
form Yokus boss, the Putin Government has tagged him as a threat
and now his company (Russneft) is under
threat as the Russia Government has
forced my husband to resign as the owner.
You can catch more of the story on this website:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070730/bs_afp/russiapoliticsenergy_070730195656
http://www.khodorkovsky.info/authority/135162.html
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070730/69916746.html
The Russian authorities have started seizing all my husband accets as
industrialist, he was able to move a total sum of US$19 Million in cash
through diplomatic immunity means to a security holding firm in Europe for
our future benefits, we are been monitored and things are beginning to get
worst for us by day, that is why i am contacting you as a manner of
urgency to act with utmost dispatch to make this claims on our behalf.
We shall compensate you with 20% of the total funds if you can help us secure
these funds and relocate them to secured account in your country.
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 security firm transfer the sum to
you. My family and I have decided to use this sum to relocate to American
continent and never to be connected to any of the Russian conglomerates.
The transaction has to be concluded within 5 to 10 working days as soon as
you confirm your readiness to conclude the transaction with me.
contact my private email address for more details m.gutseriyev@yahoo.com so that I can furnish you with more details.
Thank you very much,
Regards,
Mrs.Melissa Gutseriyev

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