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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Inna Khodorkovsky" <innakhodorkovsky@ro.ru>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:20:11 +0400
Subject: Inna Khodorkovsky

Attention

I am Inna Khodorkovsky the wife of Mikhail
Khodorkovsky,once rated as the richest man in Russia and
owner of YUKOS OIL (Russian largest oil company),chairman
CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (a well reputable financial
institution with its branches all over the world)

SOURCE OF FUNDS:
There are charges that my husband being the former C.E.O.
of the Yukos oil firm and his deputy, Platon Lebedev, were
part of an organized criminal group, that stole 350
million tons of oil between 1998 to 2003. The tonnage
exceeds Yukos production during the period in question,
Khodorkovsky, whose first sentence ends in 2011, the
47-year-old tycoon is charged with multiple counts of tax
evasion and fraud, futher on his charges Khodorkovsky is
been accused of trying to sell 40% of the Russian's oil
reserves to the Americans.


The government further took the unprecedented step of
freezing shares, bank account of Yukos, and in May
frozed a housing complex in the Moscow suburb of Zhukovka
where Khodorkovsky and other former executives of the
Yukos oil company he founded have homes, but the
authorities did not explain the action, His company was
dismantled, and its most productive asset, Yugansneftegaz,
eventually merged into the Russian public oil company
Rosneft


My husband Mikhail Khodorkovsky passed his shares
worths ($13.5 billion) to his [the Rt Hon Lord] Jacob
Rothschild, who was acting as the beneficiary, as my
husband could no longer act as the beneficiary, when my
husband realized he was facing arrest now denied us
access, My husband got arrested for his involvement in
politics, by financing the opposition political parties
(the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and
Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor
Yavlinsky), which posed as a threat to Mr Vladimir Putin's
second Tenure as Russian president.



My husband before he got arrested have an oil deal with
one Ameriacan oil merchant, which the last destinations or
ports of this oil from yukos are this five african
Countries which are Cote d' ivoire, Senegal, madagascar,
Tansania and Kenya, My husband or yukos have supplied
every drop of the oil to this five countries, and the
American oil Merchant have paid completely to my husband
or rather yukos company the sum of (us$22m) twenty two
million united state dollars in one of my husband's bank
account in one of the African bank, please i will like you
to accommodate this (us$22m) for me and you will be
rewarded with 40% for your partnership, please can you
handle this?.

You can catch more of the story on this
websites


http://www.yukos.com
www.rediff.com/money/2004/jul/17wk6.htm
nothingbutthespin.wordpress.com/.../
www.topnews.in/people/mikhail-khodorkovsky
www.cbc.ca/.../2009/03/30/russia-trial.html
radioislam.org/.../jewishp/russia/rusolig.htm


YOUR ROLE:

As you can see Yukos have been disolved as shares, bank
account and properties of Yukos is frozed many of Yukos
directors have diverted all funds and properties that were
in thier care to the thier private uses since Yukos
records is cenceled and burned with fire by the Russian
government.the worst is that [the Rt Hon Lord] Jacob
Rothschild has diverted all my husband share in his care
to his personal own


So on this note and in fear of loosing this very money in
one of the African bank my husband adviced me to look for
a trust worthy person who i can transfer this money to his
account, because this is the only money left us now as the
Government and former staffs of yukos my husband company
have diverted the companies properties to thier own
personal uses, please promise me you will not betray me
over this money, because this money is our life.


All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the
above mentioned sum and I will re-profile the funds with
your data, which will enable the bank to transfer the sum
to you, i and your husband have decided to use this money
to relocate if possible to your country for a profitable
business that you might intruduced to me as soon as the
funds are transfered to you, i believe with my husband's
experences and networks in business we shall rise again
Presently I am in Abidjan the capital city of Coted'
ivoire now with my daugther Nastya where the money is
right now and i am waiting for the trust worthy person.
The transaction has to be concluded as soon and as I
confirm your readiness to proceed with me, I will provide
you with more details.

Thank you very much.
Regards,
Inna Khodorkovsky

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