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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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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • jorge_arroyo_2007@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jorge Arroyo <jorgearroyo_003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jorgearroyo_2007@yahoo.it>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:33:21 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam/Write Me Asap


From, General Jorge Arroyo

Alternative Email; jorge_arroyo_2007@yahoo.it

Dear sir,

I am the confidant of the ex-president of the Ecuador (President Lucio
Gutierrez)who was recently removed from power and granted political
asylum in Brazil with strictinstruction not to leave Brazil. You can
see link
below:
http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen896/poen896004.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10416-2005Apr22.html

He has secretly informed me to seek for a genuine and kind hearted
person who will be able to claim and invest the sum of $23.5Million
United States Dollars which he had secretly deposited with a private
Financial Organization in the European Union before the incident that
resulted in his fleeing for asylum.

The new government is trying all efforts to seize all moneys that
belongs to the former President Lucio Gutierrez .Your assistance in now
needed to lay claim to this money since it was deposited in the name of
a "Foreign Partner" Fiticious.I personally will not be able to handle
such transaction now since I am still a serving officer in the
country's Army but as a confidant of the former President Lucio
Gutierrez I am ready to help him seek for help.

I request that you provide me with your full names, contact address,
occupation Telephone and fax numbers. Once this Information is received
I will provide you with the necessary and relevant documents that will
put you in place as the Original Owner of the money. Mr. Lucio has
already instructed that 70% of this money will be for him while the
remaining 305 will be for you and I can assure that this transaction is
risk Free.furthermore, i will send to you all my identity cards,
military
identity card, pictures and other relevant papers so that you will be
able to identify me.

Upon your response I will introduce you to an attorney whole will
provide you with guidelines and assistance too. For now I will suggest
that all correspondence should be via this medium (Email) for purely
security reasons and No doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive,
please I implore you to observe utmost confidentiality and rest assured
that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because
we shall require your assistance to invest our share in your country
(buying of properties like houses, hotels etc)
Your timely response will be awaited via email:
jorge_arroyo_2007@yahoo.it

Regards
General Jorge Arroyo



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