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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)
  • "diplomatic security company" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  • eagle_veassionthompson@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr.M.Thompson <mictop_eagle@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: eagle_veassionthompson@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:12:44 +0400
Subject: PRIVATE INVESTMENT,


Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Michael Thompson, working with a government diplomatic security company in Gulf Region. My duty involves administrative documentation of deposits in the company.
During one of my official trips to Russia, i was introduced to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once rated as the richest man in Russia and owner of YUKOS OIL (Russian largest oil company), chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (a well reputable financial institution) and hence we became close. He later engaged my services to assist him make some deposits in our company for safe keeping.
Now I have received instructions from him to look for a reliable foreign partner/investor who can receive and manage the fund for him until his ordeal with his Government is over. He was 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 posed a threat to president Vladimir Putin's second tenure as Russian president.
You can catch more of the story on this websites:
http://www.yukos.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
http://news.ft.com/cms/4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
http://www.hoovers.com/yukos/--ID__53700--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
However the amount is $22,600,000.00 USD which will be re-profiled with your name to enable the finance firm release the sum to you. It is upon this facts that I made a trip to DUBAI in UNITED ARABS EMIRATES (UAE). If you can work with me and also render your good help honestly as requested by my friend, you are welcomed. You will be adequately rewarded for assisting.
I awaits your earliest response. I'll give you my phone number if you are genuinuely interested so we can talk. Please for confidential reasons reply ONLY to eagle_veassionthompson@yahoo.ca , I may be unable to answer you from anyother e-mail!
Kind Regards.
Mr.Michael Thompson.

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