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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: "Dr. Vitaly Osipov" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lord.vitalyosipov@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 01:07:59 +0800
Subject: RE-PROFILE/TRANSFER

Attn:

RE-PROFILE/TRANSFER $261,000,000.00 TO OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT
It might interest you to know how I got your contact. Well it is for good and I got your contact through my search for an experienced and matured contact who will act as a foreign partner for the claim of the above funds. With all due respect, I am the, personal assistant to Mr. Boris Mikhail Hodorkovsky the chairman/CEO of Yukos oil and bank Menatep SPB in Russia who is presently serving a politically motivated jail sentence in Russia. Read and get more confirmations through this link: http://news.rin.ru/eng/news///%20584/

I am presently in Dublin, Ireland and have all the deposit documents of a large amount of funds which was to be used for the payment of a certain contractor/CEO from your region for the supply made to our company here in Ireland which my boss handed over to me before he was detained and tried in Russia for financing political parties and tax evasion (the union of right forces, led by Boris Nemtsov and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) my boss politically opposed most of the views of the government of Mr. Vladmir Putin, the Russian president as at that time which automatically le to the freezing of his finances and assets which included the Yukos and Menatep bank.

After searching through the books of your country's chambers of commerce and industries, I decided to contact you on a positive mutual ground to work with me in re-profiling and transfer the funds because the time is approaching when the Vault Office in Dublin might recycle it into their assets as unclaimed fund. No one else knows about it except me.

I can facilitate the release of this money within few weeks, providing to you the correct paperwork as the supposed contractor/entitled beneficiary of the fund. I want you to do this business with me and we will agree on the percentage to donate to charity and to help the less privilege in both your country and in my country anonymously. then with the remaining fund we may either enter into 50/50 joint investment in your country with the fund under your management if you will agree, we shall share it 40/60 for you and I respectively while 10 percent will be set aside to offset the overall cost of the transaction.

Let me assure you once again that this business will not last more than 3 weeks and I will apply for a leave on health ground in order to be granted an opportunity by my company to stay away from work. That will be my chance to visit you in your country for reimbursement or signing of investment partnership contract; moreover I seek means of expanding and relocating business interest in the following sectors: Real Estate, Mining, Transportation, Trading, Constructing and Agriculture. If you have a good project plan that requires funding or looking forward to expansion of existing business, and you know you can handle such transaction, get back to me with your ideas for feasibility study.
Please note that this business is free from risk but needs uttermost confidentiality. Immediately the fund is transferred my insider will enter the bank’s transaction archive room to retrieve and destroy all evidence of the transaction and there will be no trace to any place.

Eagerly waiting for your response

Dr. Vitaly Osipov
You can reach me on +353871143492
vitvit_osipov@netcourrier.com

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