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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 boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • pbarretto123@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • pedrobarretto22xx@fastermail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?pedro=20barretto?= <pbarretto123@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: pedrobarretto22xx@fastermail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:28:24 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: RE,THIS NEEDS URGENT RESPOND


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : pbarretto123@yahoo.fr

Dear Friend,



Getting your contact was not an easy task because since

I am not computer literate,I ordered my son to seek a part-

ner 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 Par-

malat Food and Diary Co. in Italy.I mean to speed up you

attendance in the execution of one transaction of transac-

tions.It is my sincere conviction that you will keep this tran-

saction 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 sip-

honing 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 box-

es will be transferred to you in your country without any complica-

tions and problems. I need to know if you can handle this com-

merce 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. Every-thing 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

legitimately.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.




- pedro barretto

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