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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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)
  • "i got your address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • aggarwal.bharat@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Bharat Aggarwal <bharat_aggarwal@excite.com>
Reply-To: aggarwal.bharat@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:01:19 +0400
Subject: Re: Are you willing?


My Dear Kind One,
Please, I am contacting you as I got your address from the internet =
whitepages while searching for a reputable
and honest person that I can sincerely trust to reach out to the poor in the =
society. Though this medium (internet) has
been greatly abused but surely it is still the most convenient, safe and
secured means of communication.
Do pardon me for the breach of your privacy if it did offend you. I know
this letter will come to you as a surprise, but this letter is borne out of
my desire to contact a capable and kind who will be willingly ready to
accept the responsibility of this humanitarian project. Moreso, as I am at
the moment incapacitated and can do little from my hospital bed.
I am Engr. Bharat Aggarwal a citizen of Canada.
I am contacting you from my hospital bed with the use of my laptop being my =
only
means of communication with the outside world presently.
I was last month diagnosed of the cancer of the kidney which has eaten deep
into me and so stand a little chance of living more than 1 year from now as
my medical experts remarked. But I believe in God's will for me to be done
in my life and not mine.
My main concern is to entrust into your care, the funds which I deposited
in an international bank long before I became hospitalised. I was a very
wealthy contractor who handled so many oil projects in Kuwait before
and after it's invasion by Iraq for about 15 years. My wife died of Diabetes =
and
we never had any child so the need to donate all I have to the orphans.
I and my late wife had contemplated running a humanitarian project by the
time I officially retire which never came to pass as I am now incapacitated =
before my retirment.
And with my current illness which could take my life any moment,
I have no choice but to entrust the funds totalling $7,200,000 (Seven
Million, Two Hundred Thousand US Dollars) to you by instructing the
bank in custody of the funds to transfer it to you as my appointed =
beneficiary.
You are to open a charity distribution centre in the form of a Non
Government Organisation with this funds. This
will help to bring back smiles to many homeless and under-previllaged
children in your society. This Charity Organisation will be managed by you.
In order to help you avoid the temptation of selfishness with this funds,
you are to have 10% of the total funds which will be ($720,000) for yourself =

and family. Another 10% will be used to clear all expenses incurred by you
or any other party involved in the process of taking possession of this
funds. The balance should be strictly used for the main project please.
I pray that God will bless you for all your kindness shown to the needy. I
shall do all possible within my limits to make this dream come through.
Please if you are willing to be the beneficiary of this kind gesture, kindly =
send me the following information's:
1. Your names in full?
2. Are you married with kids?
3. How old are you please?
4. What is your profession?
6. Contact address with phone nos.?
7. A copy of your intenational passport or driving license?
Your immediate response to this confidential email address: =
aggarwal.bharat@yahoo.com will be highly appreciated.
Remain Blessed,
Engineer Bharat Aggarwal.

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