419 scam: "Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY." <info1@fondaziondivittorio.com> (no subject)

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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:
- "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "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)
- ",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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "(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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY." <info1@fondaziondivittorio.com>
Reply-To: info@fondaziondivittorio.com
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:21:13 -0300 (BRT)
Subject:

--
Foundation's Officer,
Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY.
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it/

Dear Beneficiary,

NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of
trustees of the above International charity organization based
in the Italy as one of the final recipients of a Cash
Grant/Donation for your own personal, education and business
development

Fondazione Di Vittorio as established 1977 by the Multi-Million groups
was conceived with the objective of Human Growth, Educational
and Community development. In line with the 30th year anniversary
program this year

The Vittorio Foundation in conjunction with the Economic community for
West African States (ECOWAS) , United Nations Organization (UNO) and
the European union, is giving out a yearly donation of Two Million
United States Dollars as specific Donations/Grants to 100 lucky
international recipients worldwide in different categories for their
personal Business development and uplift of their environment. These
funds are freely given to you to use for your business, educational and
personal development, and at least 30% to be used by you to develop a
part of your environment, as this is a yearly program,
which is a measure of universal development strategy, and eradication
of poverty.

Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in your
country this year, and your country is not the only country that is
benefiting from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen
from countries from all continents.

The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will
be notable richness among many unusual people around the world.

This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a
stage where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will
only be chosen to receive the donation once, which means that
subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again, so its your
choice to spend the donation wisely on something that will last
you a long time. And please do not bother following up this email,
if you have benefited from this donation in previous years.

Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and
millions of Super market cash invoices worldwide you were
selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States Dollars) as charity
donations/aid from the Vittorio Foundation, ECOWAS and the
UNO in accordance with the enabling act of
Parliament. (Note that your email was selected from either the
internet, after absolute viewing of your profile or a Shop's cash
invoice around your area in which you might have purchased
something from).

You are required to expeditiously Contact the Executive Secretary
below for qualification documentation and processing of your claims,
between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday to Sunday.
On contact with this officer, you'll be given your donation pin
number which you will use in collecting the funds. You are to
contact back this email when you have collected your $2,000,000.00

Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (N-222-6747,
E-900-56) in all discussions.

Executive Secretary,
Mr. Ricardo Luca
Email: info@fondaziondivittorio.com

Furthermore, copied to this email is a vittorio foundation
documentation form, requesting your required particulars.
You are to immediately fill the form and return as soon
as possible, to the Executive Secretary
Mr. Ricardo Luca via email to: info@fondaziondivittorio.com

PAYMENT VERIFICATION FORM

1. FULL NAMES:..................
2. ADDRESS:.....................
3. SEX:.........................
4. AGE:.........................
5. MARITAL STATUS:..............
6. OCCUPATION:..................
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS:..............
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER:............
9. CITY:........................
10. STATE:......................
11. COUNTRY:....................
12. How do you feel as a beneficiary:.........

Please note that this donations/Grants are strictly administered by
"ECOWAS" under delegated powers from the UNO. You are by
all means hereby advised to keep this whole information
confidential until you have been able to collect
your donation, as there have been many cases of double and
unqualified claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties
about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries,
not later that 30 days after notification, as failure to do so will be
to that particular beneficiary cancelled and its donation reserved
for next years recipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations

Yours faithfully,
Mr. De Luca Lombardi
(Foundation officer)

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