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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "fondazione di vittorio" (not involved with lotteries)
  • "vittorio foundation" (not involved with lotteries)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY." <info2009@fondaziondivittorio.com>
Reply-To: info@fondaziondivittorio.com
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 11:20:21 -0300 (BRT)
Subject:


Foundation's Officer,
Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY.
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it/

Dear Beneficiary,

NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of the above
International charity organization based in the Italy as one of the final recipients of
a Cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, education and business
development.

Fondazione Di Vittorio as established 1977 by the Multi-Million groups was conceived
with the objective of Human Growth, Educational and Community development. In line with
the 30th year anniversary program this year

The Vittorio Foundation in conjunction with the Economic community for West African
States (ECOWAS) , United Nations Organization (UNO) and
the European union, is giving out a yearly donation of Two Million United States Dollars
as specific Donations/Grants to 100 lucky
international recipients worldwide in different categories for their personal Business
development and uplift of their environment. These
funds are freely given to you to use for your business, educational and personal
development, and at least 30% to be used by you to develop a
part of your environment, as this is a yearly program, which is a measure of universal
development strategy, and eradication
of poverty.

Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in your country this year, and
your country is not the only country that is
benefiting from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen from countries from all
continents.

The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will be notable
richness among many unusual people around the world.

This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where they had
always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen to receive the donation once,
which means that
subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again, so its your choice to spend the
donation wisely on something that will last you a long time. And please do not bother
following up this email, if you have benefited from this donation in previous years.

Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and millions of Super market
cash invoices worldwide you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the
award sum of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States Dollars) as charity donations/aid from the
Vittorio Foundation, ECOWAS and the
UNO in accordance with the enabling act of
Parliament. (Note that your email was selected from either the internet, after absolute
viewing of your profile or a Shop's cash invoice around your area in which you might
have purchased
something from).

You are required to expeditiously Contact the Executive Secretary below for
qualification documentation and processing of your claims,
between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday to Sunday.
On contact with this officer, you'll be given your donation pin number which you will
use in collecting the funds. You are to contact back this email when you have collected
your $2,000,000.00

Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (N-222-6747,
E-900-56) in all discussions.

Executive Secretary,
Mr. Ricardo Luca
Email: info@fondaziondivittorio.com

Furthermore, copied to this email is a vittorio foundation documentation form,
requesting your required particulars.
You are to immediately fill the form and return as soon as possible, to the Executive
Secretary
Mr. Ricardo Luca via email to: info@fondaziondivittorio.com


PAYMENT VERIFICATION FORM

1. FULL NAMES:..................
2. ADDRESS:.....................
3. SEX:.........................
4. AGE:.........................
5. MARITAL STATUS:..............
6. OCCUPATION:..................
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS:..............
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER:............
9. CITY:........................
10. STATE:......................
11. COUNTRY:....................
12. How do you feel as a beneficiary:.........

Please note that this donations/Grants are strictly administered by "ECOWAS" under
delegated powers from the UNO. You are by all means hereby advised to keep this whole
information
confidential until you have been able to collect
your donation, as there have been many cases of double and unqualified claim, due to
beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries, not later that
30 days after notification, as failure to do so will be
to that particular beneficiary cancelled and its donation reserved for next years
recipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations

Yours faithfully,
Mr. De Luca Lombardi
(Foundation officer)

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