419 scam: Canada Lottery <canadalottery39@rediffmail.com> Congratulations! Your email address has won USD1,000,000.00

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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "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)
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.
- lotteryofficeclaim49@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- africa 24hrs.tel/fax: +1-814-286-7047 email: lotteryofficeclaim49@yahoo.com sat, august 07, 2010 - lotto 6/49 (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Canada Lottery <canadalottery39@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: canadalottery39@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:36:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations! Your email address has won USD1,000,000.00

CANADA LOTTERY/ EMAIL DRAW ONTARIO 49
1550 Princess Street Kingston , ON , Canada, K7M 9E3
Website: www.canada.com/life/lotteries/lottery_results.html
UK Office No 47 Se1 7na ? Balking London United Kingdom
South Africa Office, 23 Office Park South Gate JHB South Africa
24hrs.Tel/Fax: +1-814-286-7047
Email: lotteryofficeclaim49@yahoo.com

Sat, August 07, 2010 - Lotto 6/49

WINNING NUNBERS

10/ 14/ 18/ 41/ 42/ 47 / Bonus 16

Attn: Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw of Canadian National Lottery the UK/Afro
CANADA online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday , August 07, 2010 .

You have won USD$1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars Only) from
Canadian lottery draw 2010. Your Email ID was one of the selected emails all
over the world in the lottery draw and it comes out one of the lucky winning
number.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet
representative office in South Africa as indicated in your play coupon, because
this particular draw was selected to promote Canadian National Lottery.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000.00 companies and personal
e-mails. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file for your
claim, please contact our corresponding agent in South Africa immediately you
read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information
is as follow:

Name: MR.Jill Biden
Email: southofficeclaim@gmail.com
Please forward to him the following details below

1. Full Name:
2. Country:
3. Sex:
4. Address:
5. Direct Telephone No:
6. Age:
7. Occupation/position:
8. Winning Number:

Congratulations!! Once again.

Yours in service,

Mrs. Susan Davies
(Publicity Secretary)

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