419 scam: "EURO MILLION LOTTERY ORGANIZATION"<leo@gshotel-foshan.com> EURO MILLION LOTTERY ORGANIZATION

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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 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.
- infofreelottosp@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EURO MILLION LOTTERY ORGANIZATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infofreelottosp@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:31:15 +0200
Subject: EURO MILLION LOTTERY ORGANIZATION

EURO MILLION LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

Sir/Madam

Spanish/UK Results are being sent to those winners who are selected by the computer random draw at the headquarters in Madrid for a whooping sum of 500,000 euros. Electronic mail is used to announce the winners with further instruction on how to proceed to claim Lottery winning along with related requirements.

This winner's announcement will continue till the end of JULY 2013. Those who receive this message can contact.

Agent Mrs Adela C.Martinez
using her email address infofreelottosp@aim.com
Telephone:0034 632-258-282 or 01134 632-258-282

Please send the following information's for your claim. Your country, complete official names, contact telephone, mobile and fax numbers, amount won, sex, age, occupation and job title, address where your wish to receive your winnings cheque, and lastly the date/venue of draw.

Thank You,
Adela Martinez

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