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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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Fraud email example:
From: "Scot Daniel" <scotdan5@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: scotdan33@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:11:20 +0100
Subject: PLEASE REVERT TO ME.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to present to you my sincerest apology by sending you this mail you do not expect at this time.
To introduce myself, My Name is Scot Daniel, one of the Survivors in the in the Tsunami Disaster Occurred on The 26th December which affected Many countries where more than 140,000 lost their lives well as in Tanzania where I was with my Father.
To better explain this, I was in Tanzania with my father Mr. Morrison Daniel, The Managing Director of Lakeside Mining Company, responsible of exploring Gold, Diamond as well as other precious gems.
IT was this morning at 7: 30 am, we felt an earthquake but we kept it as usual; after couples of hour later while in the car with my Dad, We saw the wave coming, though we did not realize it was so high until it was quite near us. Trying to turn back, we were already hit by the Tsunami. Shortly after trying to save our lives, my ears were blocked and I couldn't breathe. Everything went black all of a sudden; I awoke in the hospital near my father few hours later surrounded by nurses and other peoples coming to help distribute food and shelters to the other victims who are also there. My father had a stroke at the hospital and silently died after 3 hours later.
Before my father Died, he revealed to me about his deposit of 18 million USD in his Account in Ghana, as well as other precious Metals such as Gold, Diamond and other precious gems valued at 2.5 Millions USD he saved earlier in his activities.
I have made several attempts to have the money withdrawn to be used for his funeral arrangement and other expenses, but the Bank Manager do not allow me to access the money, until the money is transferred first before I could have access to it, my late father made the deposit with a condition attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign account.
As long as you can act as a sole beneficiary of the fund if only it is acceptable by you, I have my full promise to award 20% to you as a commission for your assistance and 5% set aside for any expenses you are going to make out of this transaction. I will also be grateful if you could please keep this very confidential. Please reply to scotdan33@yahoo.com.
I will be very grateful to hear from you! And please include your address where we could contact you!
Waiting for your reply,
Sincerely yours,
Scot Daniel.
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