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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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• 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.
  • sonsiahat@aol.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Ahat Sosnitskaya" <ahatsonsi@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sonsiahat@aol.com
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:16:57 +0200
Subject:


Hello friend,
Best compliments of the day. My name is Mrs. Ahat Sosnitskaya from Russia, former secretary of Yukos (Russia's largest oil company). May I confide in you if it may please you to inform you about the funds amounts to $18.5 million USD, which I secured as a result of commission from various customers and Contractors before the plight of my Boss (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) who was arrested and detained by our President Vladimir Putin. You can check in the international newspaper posted in the web-sites below:
<http://www.khodorkovskytrial.com/>
<http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/a0920791.html>
This approved fund is presently deposited in a consignment form with a reputalble security & Finance company in Madrid-Spain for safe keeping. I am contacting you because I would like to invest this fund in your country under your care and close supervisions. If you can assure me of handling this investment on my behalf without taking an advantage of my predicaments, I will give you 30% of the money for your assistances.
It may also interest you to know that my reason of soliciting for a foreign partner like you to handle this on my behalf is as a result of closed monitors placed on me, my family and most of our former top staffs that has any thing to do with our former boss.(Mikhail Khodorkovsky)
Kindly reply to my private email address for more details: sonsiahat@aol.com
Best regards,
Mrs. Ahat Sosnitskaya

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