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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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From: glenn rao <glennrao@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:15:51 +0000
Subject: SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BILL GATES



ALL OF US WUD WANT TO BE A BILL GATES (A CHRISTIAN....MAYBE) ...A PHILANTHROPIST AS OPPOSED TO BEING A MDC LIKE MUKESH AMBANI....OR HIS BROTHER OR EVERY OTHER INDIAN INDUSTRIALIST.......THE ONLY 'INDIAN' INDUSTRIALISTS WHO COUNTED AS A PHILANTHROPISTS WERE THE TATA FAMILY AND MAYBE THE GODREJS' BUT THEN THEY WERE NEVER TRULY INDIAN BUT PARSI PERSIANS..........THEN THERE WAS THE CHURCH OF ROME = ROMAN CHATHOLICS.....2% OF THE INDIAN POPULATION BUT EDUCATED THE COUNTRY...ONE WONDERS IN THE 1000'S OF YEARS THAT INDIA HAS EXISTED ...WHERE WERE THE HINDUS...AND THE MUSLIMS.....???? ....NOW BOTH RELIGIONS HATE US....IS IT BECAUSE OF OUR PEACEABLE NATURE?? EVEN THE JEWS LEFT A POSITIVE LEGACY IN INDIA!! .....ONE WONDERS WHY GOA IS THE MOST FAVOURITE DESTINATION IN INDIA FOR THE WORLD AND TO MOST DECANDENT RICH INDIANS? TELL YOU WHY...IT IS THE ONLY STATE THAT HAS ALMOST A MAJORITY CATHOLIC POPULATION.....BY THE WAY I AM NOT GOAN......MUMBAI (BETTER NAME WAS BOMBAY) WUD B GOOD 2 ...!
IF IT WAS LEFT TO THE TRUE MUMBAIKARS.....THEY ARE CALLED 'EAST INDIANS' HAVE'NT A CLUE WHY.....HOWEVER MOST OF THEM ARE ROMAN CATHOLICS TOO.....OH BY THE WAY I AM NOT EAST INDIAN EITHER......
THIS IS MY OPINION........SORRY 2 THOSE WHO DISAGREE....

SOME INTERESTING FACTS....ABOUT BILL......

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport a!
ll the money.8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven.Last but not the least: If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years !!!!!!! !!!!

HOPE BILL GATES GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH ....SO HE CAN CARRY ON THE WORK OF THE BILL & MELINDA FOUNDATION.....YES HE MAKES MONEY....AND MONEY MAKERS...ARE NOT ALWAYS HONEST...BUT ATLEAST HE HELPS PEOPLE......SOME SAY HE JEWISH.....IS HE?
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