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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: "FERSAN HADDAD" <fersandhadad@netscape.net>
Reply-To: farsan@tiscali.it
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:46:39 +0000
Subject: YUKOS FILES.

Date:7TH DECEMBER 2004.

Sir,

I am Mr Fersan Haddad and I represent Mr. Mikhail Khordokovsky the former C.E.O of Yukos Oil Company in Russia. I have been mandated from the top (oligarch) to ask for your partnership in re-profiling funds over US$450 million. I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via Bank Menatep. This is a legitimate banking business. You will be paid 4% for your "management fees".

If you are interested, please write back by email to farsanhaddad@netscape.net and provide me with your complete names (including middle name if any), your office and/or mailing address, your direct telephone number and fax numbers and email address and I will provide further details.

Please keep this as a secret as we cannot afford more political problems. Finally, please note that this must be concluded within two weeks. Please write back promptly.

I will also suggest you visit these news sites on the internet to be better informed about this project.

http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

http://www.supportmbk.com/mbk/mbk_bio.cfm

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mikhail_B._Khodorkovsky

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/khodorkovskyinterview.html

http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/75/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=75&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=M1IF&datatype=Person

http://mikhail_khodorkovsky_society.blogspot.com/

I await your response.

Regards

Mr Fersan Haddad.



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