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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: "Olen Sos" <olens1x@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sosolen@sify.com
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:21:57 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR. OLEN SOSNITSKAYA

FROM THE DESK OF

MR. OLEN SOSNITSKAYA

HEAD, CENTRAL ACCOUNTING UNIT

YUKOS OIL COPORATION,

RUSSIA .




Dear Sir,

My name is Mr. Olen Sosnitskaya, head central accounting unit of Yukos
Oil Corporation in Russia.

I have the documents of funds for Anaethesia Group Pty in our central
accounting system a company secretly owned by the chairman of Yukos oil
corporation, Mr. Mikhail Boris Khodorkovsky who was recently jailed for
financing political parties in Russia(the union of right forces, led by
Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by
Gregor Yavlinsky).

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f13f7d22-b0cb-11d9-9bfc-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html

http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html

http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dbf849d8-b195-11d9-8c61-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html

The total amount of funds in the central accounting system due for
payment To Anaethesia group Pty is fifteen Million United States Dollars
(US$15,000,000.00).

Due to the fact that his finances and assets have been frozen by the
Russian government, his wife (Mrs. Inna khodorkovsky) has approached me to
get
an individual or preferably a company to help reprofile the funds in their
Name and consequently get them transferred out of Russia for investment on
their behalf.I am contacting you in this regards because she has agreed to
compensate us with 10% of the total sum.

As soon as I get you response, I will send you the necessary details
and my Identification.

Regards,

Mr. Olen Sosnitskaya.


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