419 scam: "Euro-Millions"<an-euromills@europe.com> Confirm your winning details

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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.
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.
- tfrank-euromills@europe.com (Outblaze.com, Hong Kong; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Euro-Millions" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ft-euromills@europe.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:55:47 +0100
Subject: Confirm your winning details

Your Winning Notice!!!

"You have won 650,000.00 GBP from Euro Millions Online Promotions".

The 610th Euro Millions draw took place on Tuesday October 1st 2013 at 10pm CET
(9pm UK time) and Your Email Address was attached to Millionaire Raffle:
XNM416939 and Drew the Lucky Nos: 13 36 40 43 50 and bonus 5 .

This represents a second category online draw, making you the winner of Six
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds (650,000.00 GBP).

Your Winning Details are as follows;

Reference No: K7C44/OCT/2013
Millionaire Raffle: XNM416939
Amount Won: 650,000.00 GBP

To claim your prize, You are advised to provide the following details accurately

to facilitate the prize release process.

1) Full Names
2) Sex
3) Contact Address
4) Tel., Mobile, and Fax Nos.
5) Email
6) Age
7) Occupation
8) Nationality

Send an email, confirming your Winning Email Address and the above winning
details

Confirm your winning details to : tfrank-euromills@europe.com

Yours Truly,
Anna Noble
Programme Co-ordinator

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