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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.
• 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.
  • nigagric@indiatimes.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • nigagric1@indiatimes.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DAVID ADAMS" <atallah@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: nigagric@indiatimes.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:41:24 +0200
Subject: RE: FULFILLING THE WILL


RE: FULFILLING THE WILL
My name is David Adams a practicing lawyer in the United Kingdom.
I want to seek your candid collaboration in handling a business venture
that I feel would be mutually beneficial to you and I May I ask your
permission to present you as a beneficiary to the will of one of my
trusted clients? My client and his whole family members where involved in
the Sharja air crash on the 25th of July 2004.

Since after this unfortunate incidence I have not been able to locate
any member of his family to be presented to his bank for claims of his
deposit as the law permits. It is now about time the government of the
United Kingdom convert the money to hers.

On receipt of your response in affirmation of your willingness to work
with me I will send to you full details and more information about
myself and the said funds for your better understanding.
As I am yet to get your consent on this issue, I prefer not to divulge
my full identity so as not to risk being publicized, which consequence
is detrimental.

I will prefer we communicate for now via email. Subsequently telephone
and fax correspondence would be entertained. However if you would want
a brief chat, my personal email address is:
nigagric@indiatimes.com
nigagric1@indiatimes.com
Yours sincerely
David Adams

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