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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)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • soumbos@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Soumo Bose" <sbose.gasol@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: soumbos@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:34:39 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,


Dear Friend,


I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$35 Million Dollars, which I
seek your partnership in accommodating for me. You will be rewarded with 30%
of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?

I am a close friend and partner to Mikhail Khodorkovsky one of the richest
man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: Yukos Oil
Corporation,31a, Dubininskaya Str. Moscow 115054, Russia (Russian Most
Largest Oil Company)Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable
financial institution with its branches all over the world).

SOURCE OF FUNDS:

The documents of the above funds in question was handed over to me to be
used in payment of an American oil merchant for his last oil deal Mikhail
Khodorkovsky. Already the funds have been deposited with a Security Firm
outside Russia where the final release is expected to be carried out before
he was arrested for his involvement on politics in 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:

http://www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm

YOUR ROLE:

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum
and I will arrange for the documentation which will enable the release of
the sum to you because I am presently nominated as the CEO of Gasol PLC and
I don't have time to attend to it now. As soon as I get your willingness to
comply I will give you more details and also tell you what I shall require
from you. Please reply to : soumbos@gmail.com .

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Mr. Soumo Bose.

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