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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • sosahatulebha@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs.Sosnitskaya Ahatulebha <sosahatulebha@mmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:46:45 +0100
Subject: Assistance/Partnership

Dear friend,

I need your consent after going through your business profile to reprofile a large amount of funds for
investment in your name.

INTRODUCTION:
My name is Mrs.Sosnitskaya Ahatulebha, personal secretary of Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of
Yukos oil in Russia.

SOURCE OF FUNDS:
I have the Origin of funds document in the name of ANAESTESIA PTY RUSSIA totalling Two Hundred
and sixteen Million Dollars issued by the Ministry of Finance in Russia in Government Bond and owned by
Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, that he gave to me being his personal secretary before his arrest and trial by
the Russian Authority for financing political parties led by the union of right forces opposed to the
administration of the Russian President.

You can read more about his ordeal through the newspaper websites stated below:
1. http://www.nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=2594
2. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060209/43437457.html
3. http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=6443475&cKey=1139231178000
4.http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=6369453

REASON FOR REPROFILLING:
As a result of the freezing of his bank accounts and all his known assets and investment in Russia and
other part of the world, he requested that I get the funds transferred out of Russia for investment.

It is for this reason that I need your response to reprofile the funds in your name and have them
transferred for investment in your country.

As soon as I receive your response, I will send you the necessary details you need and my international
passport photograph as a means of identification.

My regards,

Mrs. Sosnitskaya Ahatulebha
Email Address:sosahatulebha@yahoo.co.uk

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