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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Sergei Lavochkin." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sergeilavochkin@linuxmail.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:55:23 +0200
Subject: Hi

I am Sergei Lavochkin former associate and personal assistance to Platon Lebedev director of Group MENATEP, a holding company with diversified assets of $20 billion, primarily in oil and gas, mineral fertilizers, telecommunications and information technologies, and banking and financial services. Group MENATEP was the majority shareholder of YUKOS.

http://www.khodorkovskycenter.com/about-khodorkovsky-and-lebedev/about-platon-lebedev

The Russian businessman was arrested in 2003 on charges of fraud and sentenced to eight years in a Siberian prison colony in 2005. A new trial of him and his Yukos partner Khodorkovsky Russia richest man began in March last year after prosecutors laid fresh charges against them.

I am presently exile in one of the leading European countries due to threat from president Dmitry Medvedev and Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putting recently to arrest relatives and former associates of both men, contact me for an oil and gas investment offer as I intend settling down and relocate my family I can be reached on my private web mail (sergeilavochkin@linuxmail.org) free Emails aren't always secure, and they may be intercepted or changed after they've been sent

An arrest has been applied to the territory where we live there are no men there, no complete families," "The people who lived in the settlement have scattered to different countries, and two of them are in prison. Political analysts believe the Kremlin wants to ensure Khodorkovsky and Platoon Lebedev is not released in the run up to the 2012 presidential elections.

Platon Lebedev's case is politically motivated, and his arrest and prosecution were widely perceived to have been a warning to Khodorkovsky, as well as a means for the government to facilitate the expropriation of Russia 's oil and gas industry. Lebedev's ordeal has been replete with violations of the most basic human rights.

If convicted, the tycoon could spend another six years in jail after his current sentence expires in October 2011,hence he wants me to invest his funds in a foreign land and also ensure I personally handle his finance and family until his ordeal is over. Do contact me and let me elaborate on the investment proposal.

Thanks in anticipation,
Mr. Sergei Lavochkin.
Email: sergeilavochkin@linuxmail.org

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