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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • cheng2006guangyuan@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Guangyuan cheng" <cheng2777guangyuan@msn.com>
Reply-To: cheng2006guangyuan@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:16:21 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME.


FROM: MR.CHEN GUANGYUAN
Bank of China (Hongkong)
Eastern Commercial Centre,
393-407 Hennessy Road,
Wan Chai,Hong Kong.
(cheng2006guangyuan@yahoo.com.hk)

Good Day,

It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you
do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual interest
to share with you.

Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Chen Guangyuan Foreign
operations manager of the Bank of China (Hongkong), Eastern Commercial
Centre,Wan Chai Branch. I have an obscure business suggestion for you.

Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Ghazi Musa Hassan who was with the
Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 24
calendar months, with a value of Seventeen million three Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars (US$17,300,000.00) only in my branch. Upon maturity
several notice was sent to him, even during the war early last year. Again
after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from
him. We later find out that Ghazi Musa Hassan and his family had been killed
during the war in gun fire at Mukaradeeb where her personal oil well was.

http://www.iraqmemorialwall.org/iraqicasualties.html

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/names.htm

After further investigation it was also discovered that Ghazi Musa Hassan
did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at
my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So seventeen
million three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my
bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is
that according to the laws of my country at the expiration of six{6} years
the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody
applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is
that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Ghazi
Musa Hassan so that you will be able to receive his funds.

MODALITIES:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the necessary
documents that will back you up as the next of kin to Ghazi Musa Hassan, all
that is required from you is to provide me with your Full Names and Address
so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next
of kin, the attorney will also fill in for claims on your behalf and secure
the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the movement
of the funds to an account that will be provided by you. We are going to
adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary
documents in your favour.There is a reward for this project and it is a task
well worth undertaking.There is no risk involved at all in the matter, I
have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is for you refusing
to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this
situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you
into the center of relevance in my life.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue. Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account
we shall share in the ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you. I send you this mail
not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within
me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never
come easy or on a platter of gold. Please observe this instruction
religiously.

Should you be interested please send me your,

1,Full names,
2,private phone number,
3,current residential address,

And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below:
(cheng2006guangyuan@yahoo.com.hk )

And finally after that I shall furnish you with more informations about this
operation.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Chen Guangyuan

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