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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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 "dying merchant" 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.
  • luca.sandro@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: LUCA SANDRO <lucasandro@netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:25:54 +0100
Subject: CONSIDER THIS!!


Dear ,
Greetings to you and Please permit me to introduce myself. I am Mr.Luca Sandro,
an Italian crude oil Merchant based in Sao Tome and Principe.
I was so lucky to come in contact with your profile and email address on the

internet, and that is why I am contacting you.I was diagnosed with esophageal
cancer which has defiled all medical
solutions and according to medical experts I only have a few more months to
live. As you read this you do not have to feel sorry for me as it is a universal
truth that we all must die someday, the only problem with mine though being that
I have particularly not lived my life well in spite of my wealth and possessions
as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I
am very rich I was never generous, I was never caring about people but only
dedicated my time and resources on my business as that was the only thing I
cared about. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life
than just accumulating all the wealth in the world, as I lay helplessly on my
sick bed. If I was given a second chance to live again I sure would live my life
a different way from how I have lived it owing to what has
befallen me now.As my last days alive are drawing closer and closer I have
already
willed out most of my properties and assets to my immediate and extended family
members as well as a few close friends. I also want my soul to be at peace with
God and for him to be merciful on me and accept my soul and to this regard I

have resolved to give my remaining funds to charity organizations as I want this
to stand as one of the last deeds I indulge in on earth before I die. Though I
have already distributed
money to some charity organizations, Now that my health has deteriorated so
badly I can no longer continue with this myself and also I do not trust my
immediate family members or close friends on this, as I have once asked them to
close one of my accounts and distribute the funds therein to charity
organizations in
Sudan,Somolia, Haiti and India they greedily kept the money to themselves.Hence
I am contacting you with this as I have lost confidence in them because it is
obvious they are not contented with what I have left for them. The last of my
funds which no one knows of is a cash deposit of Fourteen million U.S Dollars
($14,000,000,00) stashed in two trunk boxes and declared as Personal effects of
high security value
which I have with a finance/Security Company in the Netherlands
.
All I am asking of you is to assist me in making the collection of this deposit
and dispatching the funds to any charity of your choice after keeping 20% of the
funds for yourself and your family.10% of these funds should be to cover any

expenses that might be incurred in the process of making this claims. Please

contact me as soon as you get this email if you are capable and sincere to
handle this transaction on my behalf so I can forward you with all relevant
documents necessary for the claims and the name of the security firm
where the funds are deposited. God bless you as I await words from you. Please
inform me as soon as possible via my email addres luca.sandro@yahoo.it, even if
you are not interested so I can proceed to seek for someone else to carry out
this on my behalf. Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Luca Sandro.

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