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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "DOUGLAS JAMES" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jdcertifiedconsultant@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:41:08 -0700
Subject: Business Partnership Investment Proposal

Dear sir,



I am Douglas James, a private investigator in uk, my client Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil magnate of
Yukos Oil Company charged with tax evasion by the Russian Government for political reasons seek your
partnership/proxy to invest some amount under your supervision to avoid seizure since his company's main
assets, production units, refineries and petrol stations, have been sold in series of staged bankruptcy
auctions.



http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9167397,

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article466682.ece

http://www.letthemgonow.com/



Mikhail Khodorkovsky intend to liquidate a large investment in cash and structures offshore, and take the
capital appr. derived to provide a new investment fund under your management. As you can see, his assets
are frozen and auctioned, meanwwhile there is an excess of USD5b lying in offshore accounts, unable to be
used as guarantee. The funds being liquidated arose from independent investments of the group, outside
the russian soil, so we can legitimately do so, only if this is done quietly. If the Russian authorites hear
about this, we shall have to tender it for bankruptcy auctions.



All needed from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the fund and a lawyer would arrange documentation
which will enable the bank transfer the sum to you. It is my client's wish to invest this sum outside Russia
and never to be connected with any of political opponents. The transaction has to be concluded before
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is out from jail. As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give you more details.

You can contact me on dougllasjames@ymail.com or jdcertifiedconsultant@gmail.com

Thank you very much.



JAMES DOUGLAS

Coltrac Ltd,
16 Hanbury Croft,
BROMSGROVE,
B60 4BF

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