419 scam: "SKYE BANK PLC" <infoskb@wss-id.org> MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "SKYE BANK PLC" <infoskb@wss-id.org>
Reply-To: skyebkoffice@ymail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:58:08 -0300 (ART)
Subject: MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS

CONGRATULATION!!!

The Management of Skye Bank Plc wishes to congratulate and inform you that
your email ID has won the sum of $1M (US$). As one of the consolation
prizes In the just concluded Africa/Asia/Middle-East zonal Microsoft email
promotions,The selection process was done through a Computerized system
from a database of over fifty million email addresses drawn from all the
continents of the globe.This promo is basically aimed at encouraging and
promoting the use of internet for education, health, medical and
scientific research within your community and across the globe. Hence
you’re encouraged to contribute a reasonable part of your prize money to
the betterment of humanity.

As the official Bank to Microsoft in these zonal promotions, you’re
directed to forward the following information’s for the immediate
activation/release of your prize money via (ATM CARD PAYMENT) Also a
Microsoft (promo winner’s certificate) will be issued to you

(1) YOUR FULL NAMES
(2) YOUR NATIONALITY
(3) YOUR AGE/SEX
(4) YOUR TELEPHONE/MOBILE #

Once more, Congratulations.

Yours faithfully,
Gbenga Ademulegun
Director ATM Swift Card/Foreign Operation Dept
Skye Bank Plc.

(Copyright © 2014 Skye Bank PLC.)

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