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419 Scam – Nigerian Forex Trader scam

In the following scam a criminal poses as a Forex Trader using on online trading company in Israel to solicit "investments". The email sent from a Yahoo account traces to Nigeria.

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Example email:

Emmanue Fidelis, FOREX TRADER

Dear Friend:
My name is Emmanuel Fidelis. I am a Forex Currency Trader, and I use the Finotec Platform to trade in different currencies of the world, such as Gold, Dollar, PoundsSterling, Euro, Yen and Swiss Francs.
I also trade in Commoditeis like Crude, Gold, Silver and Diamonds. With this platform, your $10,000 can easily be doubled or tripled in the course of tradig for 30 days.
I am contacting you to invite you to be my sponsor to trade in this wonderful market of currency Trading. With my experience, you can be assured of high returns on your investment.
Pleae visit the platform at www.finotec.com to evaluate the program. You can then get back to me to begin trading.
Have a nice day,
Emmanue Fidelis
FOREX TRADER

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Message headers:

Received: from [80.89.176.35] by web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com
 via HTTP; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:03:20 PDT
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 06:03:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: inet media <internet_fortune@yahoo.com>
Subject: PROFIT IN FOREX TRADING
To: johnieejufs@yahoo.com

WHOIS details for IP address 80.89.176.35:

inetnum:        80.89.176.0 - 80.89.191.255
netname:        LB-COBRANET-20050530
descr:          Cobranet Limited
country:        LB
org:            ORG-CL34-RIPE
admin-c:        ED758-RIPE
tech-c:         ED758-RIPE
status:         ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      COB-MNT
mnt-routes:     COB-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

organisation:   ORG-CL34-RIPE
org-name:       Cobranet Limited
org-type:       LIR
address:        Cobranet Limited
                Dima Saleh
                Network Administrator
                BASHA GARDENS BLDG  JISR EL BASHA
                BEIRUT  BEIRUT
                LEBANON
phone:          +961 1 512 513
fax-no:         +961 1 486 568
e-mail:         Dima.Saleh@idm.net.lb
admin-c:        DSA1978
admin-c:        BT68-RIPE
mnt-ref:        RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref:        IDM-MNT
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

person:         Elie Dib
address:        rafiu babatunde street plot 8, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Nigeria
e-mail:         elie@cobranet.org
phone:          +9613235266
nic-hdl:        ED758-RIPE
source:         RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to '80.89.176.0/24AS35074'

route:          80.89.176.0/24
descr:          Cobranet
origin:         AS35074
mnt-by:         COB-MNT
source:         RIPE # Filtered

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