419 scam: "Euromillions Lottery"<lotteryeuromillions@yahoo.com> ATTENTION:YOU ARE THE WINNER.

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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:
- ",500,000" (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 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.
- lottery.euromillions@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Euromillions Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lottery.euromillion@ymail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:05:44 +0300
Subject: ATTENTION:YOU ARE THE WINNER.

Dear winner,

The EuroMillions Lottery Jackpot Award on Christmas Eve for the Computer Email Users Promotion of 2010 is here to inform you that, this Email Address is one of the Twenty (20) lucky Emails which has won ?3,500,000.00 euro (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro only) in the first category of our computer ballot email lottery with the: LUCKY SECRET CODE NUMBER: 097775, and the BATCH/REFFRENCE NUMBER: PVR/95L-7775UNLC.Be informed that no ticket was sold for this category of EuroMillions rollover jackpot lotto draw, but it is propagated on a selection of EuroMillions Rollover Tips to encourage the email ID users. Therefore, in order to claim your winning prize, please contact the Asian/Middle-East paying agent office by sending your information’s stated below to our Asian/Middle-East paying agent Email; lottery.euromillions@rocketmail.com

FULL NAME..................................
AGE.................................................
SEX.........................................
ADDRES...................................
NATIONALITY...............................
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER............................
LUCKY SECRET CODE NUMBER.................
BATCH NUMBER/REFFRENCE NUMBER............

NOTE: Any winner below 18 years of age will be disqualified automatically. Euro Millions is a European lottery that takes place once a week, on Friday evening. Whereas national lotteries are generally limited to the residents of one particular country, the Euro Millions lottery pools the stakes of the participating European countries. This obviously makes the prizes a great deal larger than in national lotteries even in normal circumstances. But because the main prize pool is “rolled over” to the next draw if there is no jackpot winner, prizes can - after a few weeks without a winner - be as high as 50 million Euros.

Congratulations,

Yours Faithfully
Mr. Rogerbart David
On behalf of; Euromillions Lottery

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