419 scam: Euro Million <paycentre@ozu.es> YOU WON THE SUM OF 850,000.00 EUROS

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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:
- ",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 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.
- +34602453013 (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.
- spaineuromill@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Euro Million <paycentre@ozu.es>
Reply-To: <spaineuromill@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:02:01 +0200
Subject: YOU WON THE SUM OF 850,000.00 EUROS

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro Million Lottery Fund
International Programs held on the 24th of August 2012 in Madrid-Spain.
Your email address attached to ticket number: (5-6-12-19-37 ) and
reference Number: 5576/12 which subsequently won you the lottery in the
first category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
850,000.00Euro (Eight Hundred and FiftyThousand Euros) in cash credited
to file Eu/23786/12. This is from a total cash prize of 30,000, 000.00
Million Euro, shared amongst the first twenty lucky winners in this
category.

All participants were selected randomly from World wide Website through
computer ballot system extracted from over 1,000,000.00 companies and
individuals. This promotion takes place annually 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 want 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 claims, please contact our payment office.

Contact Person: Mr. Raul Ortega
(Claims Adviser Officer)
Euro Million Payment Department Office
Email: spaineuromill@yahoo.es
Tel: +34 602-453-013

Note: that all winning must be claimed not later than 14 days of
receiving this notification. After this date all unclaimed, funds will
be included in the next promo, and to avoid unnecessary delay and
complications, please quote your reference/ticket numbers in any
correspondences with our Payment Department Office.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Ana Maria Fernandez
Public Relations Officer.

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