419 scam: "Euromillion-GrossJackpot-Lottery"<infobag2@gmail.com> CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON 935,470 Euro !!!!

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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.
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.
- +34672845900 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- bilbaoseguros@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Euromillion-GrossJackpot-Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rauljohnson@rocketmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:17:19 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON 935,470 Euro !!!!

EUROMILLION-GROSSJACKPOT-LOTTERY PROMO
SPAN-NR.:ESP/ ESM00280810/11
WINNING NO: 03-45-13-09-28
BATCH N0:EURO/1007/444/606/10

Attn: Beneficiary e-mail,

EUROMILLION wish to notify you of the released Results of EUROMILLION PROMO an International Lottery, co-organised by World Tourism Organization (W.T.O)/Spanish Ministerio de Tourismo, super Stimulus draw held on the 02- 10 -2011 in Madrid-Spain, but later released 04/10/2011 due to mix up number and addresses. That your e-mail address Span the lucky numbers: 03-45-13-09-28 (bonus no.10) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 935,470(NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EURO) in cash credited to file ESM00280810/11,This is from a total cash prize of 11,225,640.-(ELEVEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FOURTY EURO)shared amongst the (12) lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web draw system and extracted from over 100,000 Microsoft associates domains that are listed. Please note that your winning falls within

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Contact: MR. RAUL JOHNSON
Email: bilbaoseguros@hotmail.co.uk
Avda De Los Torreros- 2
28028 Madrid Spain
TEL: +34 672 845 900
FAX: +34 917 903 968

Provide Below Information For Validation Of Your Prize:
Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.

FullName:_____________________________________________________________________________________

Address:________________________________________________________________________________________

Date of Birth:_____________________________ Sex:__________ Occupation:___________________

Tel:_______________________Mobile:_________________________ Nationality:________________

BANK DATAS ARE ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU WANT AN ELECTRONIC WIRE TRANSFER

Bank name:____________________________________Account/Iban no:__________________________________

Bank address:___________________________________Swift code_____________________________

Note that all winnings MUST be claimed by a stipulated time ( ON OR BEFORE 20TH OCTOBER,2011)otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.

Once again Congratulations on behalf of our staff and thank you for joining our international promotion program.

Sincerely,

Mr,Raul Johnson.

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