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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.

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:

• 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)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "(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: "ogbefluoride@terra.es" <ogbefluoride@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:21:32 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: URGENT NOTICE(N-222-6747 E-900-56)


Foundation's Officer,
Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it
BATCH NUMBER: 013/05/8394369
Qualification numbers (N-222-6747, E-900-56)

Be notified by our organisation that you just won the Donation sum of 500,000.00 (five Hundred thousand Pounds Sterlings) from the fondazione di vittorio in ITALY in colaboration with the UNITED NATIONS,EU and ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICA STATES(ECOWAS).This programm is held annually in the fulfillment of the 1999 constitutional act on poverty
eradicatiion bill and in a view to creat a substainable standard of economic status of the benefictiary countries around the globe.

You are advise to contact immediately you received this mail for further instruction on how you are to claim your donation prize.

Please quote your qualification numbers to the fudictiary/Executive Secretary who will file out your claims for security reasons. Qualification numbers (N-222-6747, E-900-56) quote in all discussions.

Contact information below:
_____________________________
Executive Secretary- Sir. Pedro Cuddicini
Email: sirpedrocuddicini_sec@fondazionedv.net
_____________________________

Attached you will find a Vittorio Foundation documentation form, requesting your required particulars. You are to immediately fill the form and return as soon as possible.

FONDAZIONE VERIFICATION FORM

FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:______ ZIP:
ANNUAL INCOME:
COUNTRY:
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:

DECLARATION:

I............................................ HEREBY DECLARE THAT,I AM WILLING TO ABIDE TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THIS OFFICE AND WILL RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS OF THIS OFFICE WITH SINCERERITY. I WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL NESCESSARY MODALITIES AND REQUREMENTS NEEDED TO TRANSFER/DELIVER MY DONATIONS TO ME. IN CASE OF ANY UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE, MY NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNINGS. DATE:_______________


Regards.
Mrs.Suasa Vittorio
(Foundation officer)






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