Yukos Email Scam.

A new variation on the old Nigerian 419 stuff comes in the email:


      I am MR. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary and
accountant to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and
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). I
seek your partnership to accommodate the sum US$423M for us.
My Boss got arrested for his involvement in politics and 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 treat to President
Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president before he was re-elected
On March 14, 2004. You can catch more of the story on this websites

It goes on in the usual manner, I’ll be nominated as one of the contractor due to receive payment….old story, just a new dressing to it.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that there are indeed Yukos unds in odd bank accounts, that various people can magic them out and so on, c’mon, we’re talking Russia here.
However, I really don’t think that it’s going to be done by someone who doesn’t realise that Ludmila is a girl’s name and not a Russian surname. Pity that.

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