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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • khoren_pnjoyan_01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • khoren_pnjoyan01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: khoren pnjoyan <khoren_pnjoyan_01@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 05:17:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Your Reply


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: khoren_pnjoyan_01@yahoo.com

From the Desk Of,

Khoren Pnjoyan,

Personal/ Corporate Legal Adviser

Yukos International Oil Corperation.

Email: (khoren_pnjoyan_01@yahoo.com )


Attn,

I am Khoren Pnjoyan, Personal/ Corporate Legal Adviser 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 of US$45M (Forty five Million United States Dollars) for us.


Mikhail Khodorkovsky 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 re-elected On March 14, 2004.


Visit the following site for detail:

(www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml )(http://www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml)

(www.mosnews)( http://www.mosnews/)

(com/news/2005/04/29/mbkhnewcharge.shtml)


The fund in question (US$45M)

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 Mikhail Khodorkovsky's name 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. In fact as I am writing to you now

I am no more in my country Russia,I left Russia to Singapore where

I am on asylum pending when this transaction will be completed.


YOUR ROLE:


I will present you /

your company as the contractors we owe 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 that the payee bank will need to transfer the sum to your Account. I have decided to use this sum to relocate to either American or any business Oriented part of Asia 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.


Please send your reply to

(khoren_pnjoyan01@hotmail.com) for confidential reasons.


Best regards,

Khoren Pnjoyan.

- khoren pnjoyan

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