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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:
  • "the consignment" (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 orphan 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.
  • habbhassan@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: HABB HASSAN <habbhassan@aol.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:47:09 +0100
Subject: URGENT RELPY PLS


dear sir,


i am contacting you as a trustwhorthy person and a person who knows
what business is all about.i am prince .,i need your assistance to enable
me transact a deal that has lasted for more than 27years now.

The UK's biggest arms dealer BAE Systems,a premier global defence and
aerospace company in united kingdom was awarded a contract for the sale
of 72 Eurofigher Typhoon aircraft, worth at least £40 billion, to
Saudi Arabia. this contract was negotiated by the ex-Saudi ambassador to
the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan to facilitates the smooth transaction of
this deal,the sum of 6billion pounds was agreed to be given to the the
ambassador.The said secret payments were made with the full knowledge
of the Ministry of Defence.the sum of over £120 million every year were
sent by BAE Systems from the UK into two Saudi embassy accounts in
Washington,which was then transfered to a security and finance company
with individual name of which my fathers name was one of them.

please click http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6728773.stm, for
proper understanding of th whole transaction.

My late father who was one of the men employed by the saudi prince to
launder the money secretely was given the sum of $23 million U.S.DOLLARS
as a sincere and dedicated fellow.

to avoid raisng eye brow and investigation,my late father deposited
this money in a security and finace company.the consignmnet was deposited
as a box containing precious stones.the money was deposited in 2001 and
he was poisoned in 2002 in america.in the document he filled with the
company,he stated that should anything happen to him,it is his oversea
business partners/associates that will claim the consignment.he did not
put anybody's name and i do not know any of this partners and the
government has started looking into the money that was laundered that tome
but the then prince of saudi has denied anything about that.maintaining
his stand that he did not receive any bribe to negotiate on the
deal.even the british governmnet denied it as well.

Now please sir,i need your assistance to retrieve that box from the
security company as i am unfit to apply for it and besides he stated that
it his foreign partners that will be his next of kin.

We will share the fund as follows:

60% to me.

30% to you.

10% for expenses.

please my dear,i am under presure and that is why i need you to apply
as the next of kin.

please i prayed before mailing to you and i still beleive that you will
be that man i heard in mind that will not cheat me.

Please remember to keep everything concerning this transaction to
yourself as confidentiality is the only key to this expected success.reply
to me so that i can tell you what to tell the security company.all the
documents relating to this transactiuon are with me and i will need your
absolute reply immdiately to enable you rceive this in your country
and i will now meet you there for the sharing.they have told me to search
for the person and i need you to be that person
i am in libya and does not have access to make outside phone calls but
can send mails wihout anybody knowing.
ilost my only sister in this plane crash that happened on 16/9/2007 at
thailand and my condition is miserable now.please i need your help sir
see this web on the plane crash
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6990000/newsid_6997700/6997719.stm

thank you and may allah see you through,please get back to me
immediately let me habbhassan@aol.co.uk

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