419 scam: "EuroMillions Lottery"<announcement@euro-millions.com> CONGRATULATIONS! Your Lottery Earnings: £1,000,000.00

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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
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)
- ",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)
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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +442034112797
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.
- eventmanager@i12.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EuroMillions Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <miadalopez@i12.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 05:56:17 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! Your Lottery Earnings: £1,000,000.00

Official UK National Lottery
EuroMillions Lottery.
Affiliate of;
The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

Attn: Winner (Prize Number 27309416)
Value of Your Lottery Earnings: £1,000,000.00 (One Million British Pounds Only).

We are pleased to inform you of the result of Euro Millions Online Lottery International, which was held on the 8th February, 2010. Your E-mail address attached to E-ticket

number: 834509819 won you Prize Number: 27309416, which drew a prize of £1,000,000.00 (One Million British Pounds Only).

This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake. You will receive the sum of £1,000,000.00 (One Million British Pounds Only) from our authorized Bank.

Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time limited placed on the payment of your prize (£1,000,000.00), we advice that you keep all information about this

prize confidential until your funds have been transferred to you by our authorized paying Bank.
You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your funds to your person.

This program has been abused severally in past, so we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false claims. This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes

of 8,000 spectators where your E-mail address was selected and came out first by a e-ballot draw from over 250,000.000 e-mail addresses (personal and corporate e-mail

addresses).

This program is sponsored by CFI Networks to compensate faithful internet suffers around the globe and empower them against Global Financial Meltdown.
Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners. With your permission, your E-mail will be kept confidential and also be included in the next sweepstake of Euro

5Million.

You must claim your prize: £1,000,000.00 not later than 14-days from the moment you receive this e-mail.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the Bank, please contact our Payment Distribution Centre via the below information for immediate processing of your

winning/payment:

*****************************************
E-Millions Payment Distribution Centre
London, United Kingdom.
Contact Officer: Mr. Jim Leighton
(Event Manager)
E-mail: eventmanager@i12.com
Tel: +44 203 411 2797
*****************************************

Note that you are to communicate our Payment Distribution Centre by quoting your winning and personal information as filed below;

1. First Name:
2. Last Name:
3. Telephone:
4. Fax number:
5. Full Address:
6. Nationality:
7. Occupation:
8. E-ticket number:
9. Prize Number:

You shall only receive further instruction as regards to your winning/payment from our Payment Distribution Centre (Mr. Jim Leighton).

Congratulations.

Mia Da Lopez.(Mrs)
Coordinator.
EuroMillions Lottery International.

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