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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" <pedrobb08@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:25:07 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

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 your 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
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.

Greetings,

Pedro Barretto.
Private email: pedro_barretto1919@myway.com

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