An Email with the Subject "Hello My Friend," was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:54:17 -0700 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as <ig_orfilip1945@virgilio.it>.
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Hello My Friend, I represent a top company executive in Russia. My name is Igor Filippenko and I am the Personal Accountant to the organization I have a very sensitive and private offer from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile some offshore investment funds worth over US$70,000,000 (seventy Million United States Dollars). I am constrained however to withhold most of the details for now. But in summary the invested funds are in a bank in Western Europe, we need to terminate these investments and re-profile the funds over to you for certain reasons. This is due to the major shake ups and on going economic re-structuring policy in Russia presently. This is a legitimate transaction, if we are agreed on the terms you will be paid 10% for "re-profiling and subsequent management of the fundsâ. If you are interested, please write back by email to: igorfilippenko07@BetWinBet.com or igorfilippenko07@myway.com. provide me with your trusted personal telephone numbers and email address and I will give you further details. Please keep this close to your chest as much as possible; we cannot afford any political problems. Write me back. I look forward to it. Best regards, Mr. Igor Filippenko.