419 scam: "ASIA PACIFIC LOTTORY ORGANIZATION"<cliamdepty@yahoo.com> CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

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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:
- "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united state 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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- asialottoorganization@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ASIA PACIFIC LOTTORY ORGANIZATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <onlincordinator.asiapacific@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:20:25 +0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

ASIA PACIFIC 2010 WINNING NOTIFICATION
Office Address: 1031 Witthayu Lumphini,
Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Email-Address: asialottoorganization@yahoo.com.hk

TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

DEAR LUCKY WINNER!!!

We did notify you of the release result of the ASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE DRAW Year 2010. Which your email address attached to ticket number 085-12876077-09 that drew the lucky numbers of 03-06-08-10-12-16-27, which consequently won the lottery and qualified you among Twenty five international Winners in the 5th category. We have been waiting for your reply for the past two weeks until today we got a strange email that you are dead and you asked Mr. Anthony Butterfield before your death to come and claim your fund that has remained unclaimed for the past two weeks.

The Asia pacific Lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 100,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your E-mail address emerged as one of the Winners in the Category "A" and you are entitled to claim the sum of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS (US$1M). Note that Ticket numbers were randomly allocated to the email addresses.

We are contacting you once again to confirm if you are Dead or alive, if you do not reply back after 7working days, then we will have no other alternative than to believe that you are truly dead according to Mr. Anthony Butterfield, and you assigned him to make the claim on your behalf.

If you are still alive we advise you to contact Asia Pacific Lottery Organization as soon as you read this email: asialottoorganization@yahoo.com.hk

We await your swift response in regard to this unexpected news we got from Mr. Anthony Butterfield; we will forward his claims to you as soon as we receive your reply.

Yours Sincerely,

Plajit Thanaporn
Vice President
Asia Pacific Lottery Organization.

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