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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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Fraud email example:

From: "MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA" <info_kimaeva@techemail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kimaeva_lioudmilac@k.ro
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:30:53 +0400
Subject: MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA

Dear sir/madam,

I am Ms. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary to
Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and
owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS
OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep
SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with
its branches all over the world). I seek your
partnership to accommodate the sum US$423M for us.

My Boss got 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 posed treat to President
Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president
before he was reelected On March 14, 2004. You can
catch more of the story on this
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

The fund (US$423M) in question was approved by the
Government of Russia for payment of various YUKOS OIL
contractors/suppliers to prevent them from loosing the
money they invested in the numerous contracts they
executed for the above firm. The Government had already
concluded plans to frozen all the accounts in my boss
name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) both corporate and personal
before I connived with the Accountant General of YUKOS
OIL (who is also my partner in this transaction) to
raise a memo stating that YUKOS OIL owe contractors the
above amount which was finally approved for payment
after some deliberations. Actually, we have paid all
our contractors both local and foreign because they
agitated for their payment when they had that my boss
was arrested.

YOUR ROLE:

I will present you / your company as one of the
contractors we are owing so that you can stand as the
beneficiary of the above quoted sum or part of the fund
according to your financial strength or the strength of
your company. I will arrange for the documentation
which the payee bank will need to transfer the sum to
you. I have decided to use this sum to relocate to
American continent and never to be connected to any of
Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has
to be concluded before as soon as possible. You will be
rewarded with 10% of the total sum for your
partnership. Can you be my partner on this?

As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give
you more details. Thank you very much

Regards

MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA

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