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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.
  • mgutseriyev@yahoo.co.uk
  • mgutseriyev@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "melissa gutseriyev" <gutseriyev.melissa@klikni.cz>
Reply-To: mgutseriyev@myway.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:26:58 -0700
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 mgutseriyev@yahoo.co.uk or
*mgutseriyev@myway.com
*

so that I can furnish you with more details.

Thank you very much,

Regards,

Mrs.Melissa Gutseriyev

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