419 scam: "Face Book Free Online London Lottery" <profcharlesbean@sify.com> Your email account is among the 30 Lucky Winners

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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 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.
- profcharlesbean_gov@yahoo.co.uk (Yahoo, United Kingdom; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Face Book Free Online London Lottery" <profcharlesbean@sify.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:47:19 -0700
Subject: Your email account is among the 30 Lucky Winners

>From The Management and staff of Face Book Inc.
In Conjunction with the Bank of England [B.O.E.]
London Office, United Kingdom.

This is to officially inform you that your email address,
has won the sum of $1.5m. One Point Five Million U.S.
Dollars only, In Our ongoing Face book & B.O.E. Free Online
Lottery Programme.

Your email account is among the 30 Lucky Winners, and For
the Purpose of Verification and authentication, and for
immediate payment, You are advised to Contact the Deputy
Governor of The Bank of England. Prof. Charles Bean. at:
profcharlesbean_gov@yahoo.co.uk

regards.

>From The Management, and staff of Face Book Inc London
Office.

In Conjunction with the Bank of England. [B.O.E.]

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