419 scam: "Sandra Bregjt"<sandra.bregjt@centrum.cz> Congratulations from EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY

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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "roy.william@gmx.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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.
- +31645145239 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sandra Bregjt" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <roy.william@gmx.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:57:19 +0100
Subject: Congratulations from EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY

EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY 2010,
100 Palmstraat,
1015 AE Amsterdam
The Netherlands.

Date: 19th-March-2010

Ref Nr: EUM/NL/4536/DE

Dear Prize winner,

The European private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors of the EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY officially bring to your notice the result of week 12 draw of the EURO MILLIONS lottery E-Game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in the Netherlands.

Most recently this foundation set up the new lottery scheme to give out prizes based on a computer ballot system, the lottery scheme is aimed at encouraging the use of the Internet for academic and business purposes. It also seek to promote music, theater, art, literature, projects in the social and political arena with focuses on health, science, research and development.

We wish to congratulate and inform you that your email coupon number was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners for this week. Your email ID identified with coupon No.EUM2348974321 was selected by in the lottey E-Game by a Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for this week's E-Game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of €1,000, 000.00 (One million Euro). The EURO MILLIONS management have approved a payout of your cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the our official payment board. Our Financial Unit (FU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the Financial Unit via the Information/ file Officer - Mr.Roy williams who has been assigned to assist you.

Contact: Roy Williams
TEL: +31-645145239
FAX: +31 847103194
E-mail: roy.william@gmx.com

Once again, congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming EURO MILLIONS-wheel Email-games.

Regards,
Sandra Bregjt
Group Coordinator
EURO MILLIONS Lottery International
100 Palmstraat,
1015 AE Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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Note: It has come to our attention that fraudulent emails are being sent out from the Netherlands by some group of people. These emails are not from the EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY international or our associate sponspors. These emails may claim that the recipient has won a prize in the EURO MILLION E-Games or some other non-existent international version of EURO MILLION E-Games. These emails may include our name, our logo and links, we are working seriously to ensure security on our web page.

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