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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.
  • coomby_500@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ig milkky <ignatius_500@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:11:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE,URGENT ASSISTANCE.


Strictly confidential.


I am writing to beg for your assistance as I am in dare need and extremely distressed.
My name is Walty Yuklov I am from the republic of Georgia; I was the operations manager for Yukos Oil Company in Moscow Russia.

As you may well know, the Russian Government has taken over the company and my boss has been detained pending investigation and trial. I was able to find means of taking of to capeverde, in Africa where I presently reside while contemplating what to do next.

My main cause of distress is that I, and the finance officer of the company had moved a large sum of money to a security firm in Ivory Coast Africa where we have an exploration office.

The total sum is Thirty Seven Million, Six hundred Thousand Dollars ($37.6m). We are now very incapacitated to make use of the funds, Because of our involvement and status at Yukos Oil. Yukos is a very troubled company and we do not want to expose ourselves at this time, hence we need someone we can trust to hold this money overseas from where we can take care of things and do some investments. There is no problem with the money, just that we as Yukos staff can’t put the money in our name.

Please this is extremely important to me because my family is in distress in St. Petersburg. As soon as this money is secured somewhere I will be able to move them to a more stress less place. My children can’t attend school due to fear and constant news coverage of the collapse of Yukos, It is tough for me and my colleague and our family.

Please do help me and my family, we need to secure this fund because we can only hope on it. Please, we will share the money with you equally we just need your trust and honesty to keep our share for us.

Thank you for your assistance.contact me confidentially at Email coomby_500@yahoo.com

Walty Yuklov.





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