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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.
  • larisa_sosnitskaya_10@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Larisa Sosnitskaya" <larisa_sos_24@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: larisa_sosnitskaya_10@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:00:06 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY!!

FROM MRS. LARISA SOSNITSKAYA OF YUKOS OIL AND BANK MENATEP SPB

 

Dear Friend,

 

My name is Mrs. Larisa Sosnitskaya, Personal Assistant to Mr. Boris
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the arrested Chairman/ CEO of Yukos Oil and Bank
Menatep SPB in Russia who is presently in jail.
I have the documents of a large amount of funds which he handed over to
me before he was detained and tried in Russia for financing political
parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov and Yabloko, a
Liberal/ Social Democratic Party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) opposed to
the Government of Mr. Vladmir Putin, the current President of Russia,
thereby leading to the freezing of his finances and assets.

 

You can read more about his ordeal from the following sites:

 

Http://www.supportmbk.com
Http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html
Http://news.ft.com/cms/4bb9612a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
Http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3042850.stm

 

After searching through the books of your Country's Chambers of
Commerce and Industries here in Russia, I am contacting you to assist me to
re-profile the funds and equally invest same on his behalf. The total
amount of funds to be re-profiled is Forty Six Million United State
Dollars (USD$46,000,000.00) and you will be paid 20% for your management
services.

 

As soon as I receive your acceptance through my personal email address:
(larisa_sosnitskaya_10@yahoo.co.uk)

 

I will send you the necessary details and my personal identification
documents.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Mrs. Larisa  Sosnitskaya.

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