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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: "Mack Williams" <info@mackwilliams.org>
Reply-To: lmws02@yahoo.com.au
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:02:37 +0000
Subject: From: Mrs. Lisa M. Williams

Hello,

It is indeed with a deep sense of urgency and an utmost need for
confidentiality that I am making this request of you. I am by this compelled
to plead with you if not for any reason to treat the information I am about
to divulge as such.

I am Mrs. Lisa M. Williams, Personal secetary to Mr. Boris Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, The arrested chairman/CEO of Yukos Oil and Bank Menatep SPB in
Russia. My boss gave me documents containing a large amount of funds which
he deposited in a finance company in Europe. Now he is been detained for
financing political party and been tried in Russia (the Union of Right
forces, led by Boris Mikhail and Yabloko, a Liberal/Social Democratic Party
Led by Gregor Yavlinsky) opposed to the Government of Mr. Vladmir Putin
(Russian President), this there by leading freezing of his finances and
assets.

However, on one of my visit to him in detention he told me to help him
recover these funds from the finance company and invest it in any business
that I want to invest it into. The total amount of the funds is Eighteen
Million Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollar
($18,500.000.00).

It has therefore become imperative that I seek the assistance of a
trustworthy, willing and committed partner in the pursuance of our common
objective putting into consideration the element of confidentiality inherent
in this transaction.

Based on the above, I have been mandated by my boss with an offer of 20%
from the above mentioned funds to you for willing to assist as trustworthy
foreign partners who will help him in getting the funds from the financial
company in Europe.

Please kindly get back to me ASAP via my alternate e-mail (
lmws03@yahoo.com.au ) should you be willing to assist. At the same time I
wish also to reiterate the high priority we have placed on its
confidentiality and praying that you respect this and share in our common
ambition and value.

Thank you and God bless.

Respectfully,



Mrs. Lisa M. Williams.

NB: You can read more of his ordeal from:

http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11261041

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-Khodorkovsky



From: Mrs. Lisa M. Williams

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