419 scam: "STEVE MORGAN"<internationalwinners60@gmail.com> FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million british pounds" (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)
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.
- internationalwinners1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "STEVE MORGAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <internationalwinners1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 22:59:02 -0800
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

INTERNATIONAL DISBURSEMENT DEPARTMENT
7952 WILLIAM ST, GRAYS ESSEX-UNITED KINGDOM
REPLY E-MAIL: internationalwinners1@gmail.com

MARCH 7th, 2013
CLAIM NO:-GL-022CA

ATTN: Sir/Madam

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the declared winners
of DE- LOTTO NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY
held on NOVEMBER 6TH, 2012 in the 2nd category.

We have made many unsuccessful attempts to contact you regarding this
Winning. You are therefore entitled to the sum of £2,400,000.00
British pounds. This is from total prize money of £8,5 Million British
pounds Sterling that was shared and presented among the other declared
winners. Please note that all the participants were selected through a random
Computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000 names.

In accordance with our disbursement policy your prize award money has
been forwarded to our Clearing / Disbursement institution to release
your funds to you.

Your claim number is GL-022CA and has been assigned to our Claims
disbursement Affiliate. To expedite the processing, please email your
Full Name, Updated Address, telephone number and date of birth to
Clearing/Claim department internationalwinners1@gmail.com

Please keep your winning information CONFIDENTIAL until your claim has
been processed and your cash remitted to you as this is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non
Participants taking advantage of this program.

Congratulations.
Yours truly
Steve Morgan (Promotion Manager).

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