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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 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.
  • pedrobarretto22xx@fastermail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Pedro Barretto" <pbarretto888@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: pedrobarretto22xx@fastermail.com
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:26:55 +0000
Subject: THIS NEEDS URGENT RESPOND

Dear Friend,
 
Getting your contact was not an easy task because since I am not computer literate,
I ordered my son to seek a partner very far away and he went to the institute of
International Business to apply and he paid them the charges. My name is Pedro
Barretto the personal assistant to the sig. Stefano Tanzi who is the son of Don Calisto
Tanzi the founder of Parmalat Food and Diary Co. in Italy. I mean to speed up you
 
attendance in the execution of one transaction of transactions. It is my sincere
conviction that you will keep this transaction with absolute confidentiality, the maturity
and the maximum sense of scope. Several months ago, The Don Calisto Tanzi was
accussed of siphoning off a large volume of funds from the pamalat company. They are
accused of siphoning billions of USD abroad. You can read more about this news here

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/30/parmalat.tanzi/index.html
Immediately after the arrests, I escape out of Italy and I am now in Germany where I
am communicating with you. I was able to escape with some funds that were placed
in my accounts by Sig Stefano. The money total is $63.5 Million USD. These funds are
in 3 trunk boxes and are now lodged securely in a holding company here in Germany.
Now, I need your help to move this money out of here securely to your country

where myself and my family can join you and we can start a new life altogether. The
money is lodged with the holding company using a secure PIN code and if you accept
to doit this commerce, I will instruct the holding company to acknowledge you as the
beneficiary to the trunks. I have already work out a way the boxes will be transferred
 
to you in your country without any complications and problems. I need to know if you
can handle this commerce so that I can furnish you with the details and we can move
ahead immediately. Please note that this transaction is a very sensitive one and you
must not mention a word of this letter or my contact to anybody because to do so
is to put yourself, and myself in trouble. Everything must be confidential. Please read
 
this proposal very carefully before you reply because I dont want to waste your time
and I dont want you waste my own. If you follow my instructions, we will complete
this commerce successfully without any problems and everything will be done legitima-
tely.Also, I will give you 20% of the total monies for your role in this commerce.

Please copy your response to my private email address included below otherwise i might
not be able to read your mail and I will like us to keep this way, for the safety of this
transaction.I wait your immediate reply.Private email:(pedrobarretto22xx@fastermail.com)

Greetings,

Pedro Barretto.

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