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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:
  • "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 feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27766659882 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • ckorondo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ckorondo@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:44:34 +0200
Subject: Reply urgent

FROM Mr. Charles Korondo
PHONE+ +27 76 665 9882
OR YOU CAN SEND YOUR
REPLY TO ckorondo@yahoo.com

Dear Sir\Madam,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business having gone through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though, this medium(Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication.

However,this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it
should be treated as such.

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both parties.

I am Mr. Charles Korondo a personal treasurer to Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
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).
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$21.3 Million United States Dollars, 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:
As a personal consultant to him,authority was handed over to me in transfer of money of an American oil merchant for his last oil deal with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Already the funds have left the shores of America to a European private
security company with Branch offices in Africa where the final crediting is expected to be carried out. While I was on the process, My Boss got arrested for his Involvement in politics by 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 a treat to President Vladimir Putin Second Tenure as Russian president.

You can catch more of the story on this website:
http://www.yukos.com
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 re-profile the funds with your Name, which will enable The
Alert security company with Branch offices in Europe transfer the sum to you. I Have decided to use this Sum to relocate to American or Asia Continent and never to be connected to any Of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded soon and as I confirm Your readinesses to conclude the transaction with me, I Will provide you with the details.

Thank you very much.

Regard.

Mr. Charles Korondo

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