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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "fondazione di vittorio" (not involved with lotteries)
  • "vittorio foundation" (not involved with lotteries)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "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!
• 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.
  • ivcsscpcompanyplc@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Vitorio Foundation <ivcsscpcompanyplc@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:46:01 +0200
Subject: YOUR GRANT WINNING FUND RELEASED.

Foundation's Officer,
Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it
Concern.
The Foundazione di Vittorio, would like to notify
you that you have
been chosen by the board of trustees as one of
the final recipients of
a cashGrant/Donation for your own personal,
educational, and business
development.
The Fondazione Di Vittorio, established 1977 by
the Multi-Million
groups and now supported by the Economic
Community for West African
States (ECOWAS),United Nations Organization
(UNO) and the European
Union (EU) was conceived with the objective of
human rowth,educational, and
community development. To celebrate the 28th
anniversary program, The
Vittorio Foundation in conjunction with the
Economic Community for
West African States(ECOWAS),United Nations
Organization (UNO) and the
European Union (EU) is giving out a yearly
donation of EUR 100,000,000.00 (One
Hundred Million Euro) to 100 lucky recipients.
These specific Donations/Grants will be awarded
to 100 lucky
international recipients worldwide; in different
categories for their
personal business development and
enhancement of their educational plans. At
least 15% of the awarded funds should be
used by you to develop a
part of your environment. Do note that I have
forwarded the produced data, to
the head office of the Vittorio Foundation
(ITALY) and the ECOWAS head
office (Organisation assigned to handle your
payment) in Netherlands.
Based on the random selection exercise of
internet websites and
millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide,
you were selected
among the recipients to receive the award sum
of EUR 1,000,000.00 (One
Million Euro) as charity donations/aid from the
Vittorio
Foundation,ECOWAS,EU and the UNO in
accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.
You
are required to fill the form below and email it
to our Il Direttore
below for qualification documentation and
processing of your claims. After contacting our
office with the requested data,you will be given
your donation pin number, which you
will use in collecting the funds.
==================================
===============================
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP:
COUNTRY
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:

CHOOSE FROM ANY OF THIS PAYMENT OPTIONS:
1. WIRE TRANSFER COT CHARGES 500
POUNDS WIRED TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN
4HOURS TIME AFTER WE RECEIVE PAYMENT
FROM YOU.

2. COURIER DELIVERY CHARGES 300 POUNDS
DELIVERED TO YOU IN 4-5 DAYS AS
SOON AS WE RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT.
==================================
================================
Il Direttore: Dr.Karl Newee.
Email: ivcsscpcompanyplc@yahoo.es

All information is strictly confidential and will
only be used for the
purpose to which it is been requested.Please
note that these
donations/Grants are strictly administered by
Economic community for
West African States (ECOWAS),European Union
(EU),under delegated powers from the
United Nations Organization (UNO). Please
endeavor to quote your
Qualification numbers (N-222-6747,E-900-56)in
all discussions.
You are to keep this whole information
confidential until you have
been able to collect your donation, as there
have been many cases of
double claim and unqualified claim, due to
beneficiaries informing
third parties about his/her donation.Finally, all
funds should be claimed by
their respective beneficiaries,no later than15
days after
notification. Failure to do so will mean
cancellation of that beneficiary and its
donation will then be reserved for next year's
recipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly,accept our
warmest congratulations.

Regards.
G.G.Miccaglla
(Foundation officer).

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