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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • kimaprivacy1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kimaeva Lioudmila Lioudmila" <kimaprivacy23@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:02:24 +0000
Subject: From Miss Kima!!!


Compliment Friend,

I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$11.2M,which I seek your
partnership in accommodating for me.You will be rewarded with 30% of
the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?

INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF:

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 Most Largest Oil Company)
Chairman
CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A reputable financial institution with its branches
all over the world).

SOURCE OF FUNDS:

The documents of the above funds in question was handed over to me to
be used in payment of an American oil merchant for his last oil deal
with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Already the funds have been
deposited some where in the UK (undisclosed for now), where the final
crediting is expected to be carried out. While I was on the process, 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 poses treat to President Vladimir Putin second
tenure as Russian president. You can catch more of the story on this
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

YOUR ROLE:

All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted
sum and I will arrange for the documentation which will enable transfer
of 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 in 2 weeks.
As soon
as I get your willingness to comply through my most private email
address Reply to: {kimaprivacy1@hotmail.com }, I will give you more
details.

Thank you very much

Regards,

Miss Kima Lioud


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