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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: tnt_grantparcel@live.co.uk
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:00:03 +0200
Subject: YOU HAVE A PACKAGE WITH TNT COURIER SERVICE

Greetings!

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank
Draft of 850,000.00 GBP, but I did not hear from you since that time.

Then I went and deposited the Draft with TNT Delivery, West Africa, I
traveled out of the country for a 3 Months Course and I will not come
back till end of November.
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What you have to do now is to contact the TNT Delivery as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the
expiring date.
For your information, I have paid for the delivery charges,the money you
will send to the TNT Delivery courier to deliver your Draft direct to
your postal Address in your country is ($170 Dollars) only being Security
Keeping Fee of the Delivery Company so far.Again, don't be deceived by
anybody to pay money except $170 Dollars.I am on a course in which they
will not be able to contact me for the payment.
You have to contact the TNT Delivery service now for the delivery of
your Draft with this information below;
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Contact Person: Mr. Morris Brown
E-mail : tnt_grantparcel@live.co.uk
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Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address() and Direct
telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and
ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package
When it arrive, and know when it will get to your address.Let me repeat
again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any
further delay and remember to pay them their security keeping fee of $170
Dollars for their immediate action.Note that it is when you must have pay
the $170 Dollars for the security fee that the package will be released
and the tracking number would be given to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Austein Ashford

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