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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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Fraud email example:

From: "pedro barretto" <pedro_b02@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:37:56 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

Beloved Friend,

Good day to you. 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 have obtained your contact from the
information from our Chambers of Commerce when sourcing for a stimabile
contact to the foreign country with who I can execute with a commerce of
this largeness that demands the confidentiality and the absolute confidence.
I mean to speed up your attendance in the execution of one transaction of
transactions.

It is our sincere conviction that maneggierete this transaction with
absolute confidentiality, the maturity and the maximum sense of scope. Some
months ago, A few months ago, Don Calisto Tanzi was accussed of siphoning
off a large volume of funds from the company.

Hour, its son (sig. Stefano Tanzi) has confidato $40 million USD to me. This
cash is secured in 2 trunk boxes that is being lodged with a security
company. TThe boxes are lodged and secure with a PIN code which I have the
instruction. I have travelled to Ulm, Germany where I am in the hidding in
the underground from which I am communicating with you currently. We have
need of your attendance in the collection of the boxes them from the company
of security and the lodgement of the moneies in the banking system in your
country and for the investment of the moneies in the real estate. Since I am
in the underground, I cannot execute some physical transaction in person.

On on your acceptance, I will telefax your information to the security
company and they will acknowlege you as the beneficiary of the funds. After
that, the cash $40 Million USD which is in 2 boxes will be shipped to your
base, through diplomatic courier service (DCS) of the External Affairs
Ministry.

After the reception of the boxes then, you can then put the moneies in the
bank for the proposed investment or keep it in a safe deposit box till I'm
able to join you. DCS system of moving big volumeof cash is safe and tested.
In the light of this modality of DCS, your thoughts, opinion and answer is
welcomes. The execution of this transaction has been planned im such way
that will not open a passage the laws of your country, neither unoa neither
the other mine.

All that you must make it must follow my instruction and maintain all
particular the confidential
one. To preview yours the more soon answer to this proposal.
Better cares,
Pedro Barretto
Pedro Barretto
Telefone: 49-692-557-7039
Facsimile: 49-731-230-9012
NB: Please ex-cuse, my English is not much good one.


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