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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.
  • kankhan239@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "kan khan" <kankhan239@msn.com>
Reply-To: kankhan239@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:08:46 +0000
Subject: HELLO

NAME: Kan Khan,
EMAIL:kankhan239@yahoo.co.uk
STRRET:Minitary Zone 93,
STATE:Bagdad,
COUNTRY:Iraq:
Dear Sir,
I am Mrs Kan Khan woman bassed in bagdad in iraq, i contact you for a
little assistance you can render to me. Due to the situation here in in
iraq,
those of us in the business circle are finding it very difficult to cope
with
the situation here,no stable goverment,bomb explotion at strategic
places every now and then,sometimes people find it very difficult to go
about their normal businesses due to fear of being victim of terrorist
attack,
above all.

The crisis in iraq now has made business activities totaly parallised
for quite sometime now.for intance,no good telephone facilities,no
adiquate security,infact,all most all the basic ! infrastructure were
destroyed during the recent war in iraq,eversince then,the enveroment
in iraq has never been condusive business wise.

Please,why i need your assistance is that i have about (us$40.000.000)
fourty million unitedstates Dollars in my custody.i inherited the money
from late my husband who was a major general in iraqi army in charge
of purchase and maintainance in the immediate past regime.My intention
is to move the money out of iraq and invest the money in stock market or
real estate in your country with the help of an honest person who will work
with me as my foreign associate, i want to invest most of the money abroad
to avoid lossing the money, because it is not wise doing business in the
atmosphere of fear here in iraq,that's why i am calling on you.

If you can honestly collaborate with me ,i am ready to pay you up to 20%
of the total amount if you can sincerely assist me to actualise this
project soon,because the situation here in ir! aq is very critical,the
everyday bomb explotion seems to have no end.I wait patiently for your
urgent response.
Best regards,
Mrs Kan Khan.

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