419 scam: "SOLICITOR GABRIELLE VODKOVIC"<invitado@econo.unlp.edu.ar> This prompted me to contact you (REPLY ASAP)

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447012901283 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
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.
- gabriellevodkovic@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- all possible suggestions and interest via e-mail(gabriellevodkovic@gmail.com) or (gabriellevodkovic@hotmail.com)as soon as possible so (Gmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <gabriellevodkovic@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:04:24 -0700
Subject: This prompted me to contact you (REPLY ASAP)

FROM: SOLICITOR GABRIELLE VODKOVIC,
LAURENCE POUNTNEY HILL
LONDON EC4R 0HH
+447012901283

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am SOLICITOR GABRIELLE VODKOVIC, I have an urgent and very profitable business proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality.

A Russian architect and contractor Mr. Vitaly Kaloyev made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for Twenty Four calendar months valued at US$8.130,000 (Eight Million, One Hundred and Thirty thousand United States Dollars Only) in a Finance firm.

My client Vitaly Kaloyev who's wife and two children died in a mid-air plane collision that killed 71 people in southern Germany in July 2002 was convicted and sentenced to Eleven years in jail by a Zurich court of murdering Swiss air-traffic controller Pieter Nelson.

Vitaly Kaloyev Has directed that I seek a partner who's account this fund will be transferred to as he is prison and cannot make use of the fund and this fund may revert to the British Government if immediate action is not taken. You may visit this websites to be sure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4375338.stm
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/10/26/kaloyevupdate.shtml
http://dailyblitz.motime.com/archive/2005-10

This became necessary for in accordance with the Law of UK at the expiration of 11 years the fund will revert to the ownership of the British Government, if nobody applies to claim the fund. I decided to contact you to assist him receive this fund for safe keeping and investments on his behalf as this fund will be taken over by the British Government as provided in section 129 sub 63(N), British Banking Ethics of 1961.

This prompted me to contact you. I want to front you as the owner and beneficiary to my client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the said fund presently in the Finance firm. I contacted you because we do not want this fund to be traced back to him.

The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all modalities has been perfected to ensure a hitch free success of the transaction. He has also agreed that you will generously be entitled to 35% of the total amount.

Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist him in this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer all the rights of ownership of this fund to your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country.

You have nothing to worry about, as I will be there to assist you in anyway necessary with all proper documentation.

If you are interested, send all possible suggestions and interest via
E-mail(gabriellevodkovic@gmail.com) or (gabriellevodkovic@hotmail.com)as soon as
possible so that we can proceed.I await your timely response.
Regards,

SOLICITOR GABRIELLE VODKOVIC

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