419 scam: "YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY." <desk-----of010@att.net> YOUR EMAIL WON YAHOO LOTTERY OF US$1,000,000.00.DOLLARS.

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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:
- "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)
- ",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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "markprocessing@live.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.
- +66844696963 (Thailand, probably a mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY." <desk-----of010@att.net>
Reply-To: markprocessing@live.com
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:48:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR EMAIL WON YAHOO LOTTERY OF US$1,000,000.00.DOLLARS.

YAHOO INTERNATIONAL/GLO LOTTERY PROGRAM.
Bangkok Branch Office.
Address:789/5 M.81 Soi 29,Nogprue,
Banglamung avenue,Bangkok 10472
Thailand. http://www.glo.or.th

YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IN CONJUCTION WITH GLO LOTTERY ORGANIZATION.

Dear Beneficiary.

Yahoo Mail in affiliation with the Glo lottery organization Thailand announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year Held on 7th the January 2011.

All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS (USD$1,000,000.00).

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of (USD$1,000,000.00) will be released to you from this regional office in Bangkok Thailand.

Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Payment have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

These are your winning identification numbers: Secret Pin Cod:Bkk8awtz5000, Refference No:YL200239934, File Number:608510th, Ticket No:995-82771097-00, Serial No:51390-0
Lucky No:07-05-66-19-38-98.

To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery processing officer as follows,

Email: markprocessing@live.com
Name: Mr. Mark Richardson
24hrs Hotline: +668-446-96963.

You are to send the completed verification form below to the payment processing officer whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

1. Full Name:
2. Country Of Origin:
3. Present Address:
4. Date Of Birth:
5. Occupation:
6. Telaphone number:
6. Fax number:
7. Marital Statusa:
8. Ticket No, Serial No, Lucky No, Secret pin code no and Refference no.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th of March 2011. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to the lottery committee's treasury account. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your favor.

Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is already insured in your name and no one can cashed or deducted any amount from the winnings except only you.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and secret pin code numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our payment officer as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo Registered member to benefit from this program.

Your winning prize money must be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of US$7,000 Dollars per day which is powered by Visa Card and can be operated in any bank in your country. Agreement was reached between YAHOO AND GLO LOTTERY ORGANIZATION that the custom pin Based ATM Card will be the only mode of payment as it will help the Yahoo lottery organization committee to monitor the payment proceses. Contact the payment processing agent for the claim process and release of your Award winning funds.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.

We wish you continued good fortunes.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs.Eunice Somchai.
Yahoo/glo lottery coordinator.

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