419 scam: "Sharon Leonard"<sinfo@australianlottery.com.au> Re: Very Urgent (Get back to me)

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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Sharon Leonard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dennis.colson@mail-on.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:16:36 +0100
Subject: Re: Very Urgent (Get back to me)

World Lottery Head quarters

Sweepstakes Lottery Affiliate of Watergate inc.

TEL : +1 845 224 3496

Fax: +1 360 361 6399

www.australianlottery.com.au

URGENT NOTIFICATION

Dear lucky winner,

On the Date 3rd January being Monday morning 2011 Ms. Jennifer A Brimley filled in your email address

as her next of kin on her winning ticket.Ms.Jennifer live in 731 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles Ca 94015

USA close to Beverly Center Mall,she late at the age of 64 years. she is not married or having kids.

she lost her life on a Car Accident on 8th being Friday night of Feb 2013.

on our investigation to her claim, Your email stand as Next of Kin to Jennifer and the funds are to be

release to you based on our rules and regulation. You are to receive USD $ 845000.00 won by

Ms. Jennifer on world lottery program promotion in USA/Australia. This is a bonus to promote lotto

in the world, which is fully based on electronic selection of winners using their addresses e-mail from

certain sites.

All participants were selected from United States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, South America

and Oceania as part of our international promotions program, which is held annually.Your Winning

Identification Numbers:

Batch number:(KB8781/LPC)

Winning number: (8056490912/147)

CONTACT BELOW:

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

MR.DENNIS COLSON

E-mail: dennis.colson@mail-on.us

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