419 scam: "Yahoo Award Notification"<webcustomerservice2@yahoo.co.uk> Official Award Payment

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "drhmandla62@live.co.za" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "drhmandla62@live.co.za" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447024088311 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
- +27747675226 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
- +27862470417 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Yahoo Award Notification" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drhmandla62@live.co.za>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 02:50:24 -0700
Subject: Official Award Payment

Yahoo! Worldwide Websites Award Center:
Address: 114 Shaftesbury Avenue
London, WC2H 8AD - UNITED KINGDOM
Customer Service Tel: +447024088311

We're contentedly to inform you, that you have duly won prize money of Nine Hundred and Seventy Three Thousand British Pounds only (GBP973,000.00) for this Year 2014 Monetary Award Program which organized and officially APPROVED by YAHOO, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AOL and WINDOWSLIVE.

YAHOO and MICROSOFT collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Google, Aol, Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Five people are selected to benefit from this year 2014 promotion and you are one of the Selected APPROVED Winners.

CLAIMS AND PRIZE PAYMENT!

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than 11th days, from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER: YFMAG/04/YGA201419. REFERENCE NUMBER: 20141904YK, PIN: 4419 and WINNING NUMBER: 14 20 34 38 43 45.

These numbers fall within the South African Location file, therefore you're requested to contact our fiduciary Agent in Johannesburg South Africa right away. and send your winning identification numbers stated above to him:

CONTACT PERSON: DR. HENRY MANDLA

E-Mail: drhmandla62@live.co.za
E-Mail: dr.henrym@yahoo.co.za
TEL: +27747675226: Fax: +27862470417

You are advised to send the following information to assigned Claims Agent to facilitate the release of your fund to you.
1. Full name..............................
2. Country..................................
3. Contact Address.....................
4. Telephone Number.................
5. Fax Number.... ........................
5. Marital Status.........................
6. Occupation.............................
7. Date of birth.....................
8. Sex.................................
9. Batch Number.................................
10. Reference Number.................................
11. Pin Number................................
12. Winning Number................................
13. Amount Won................................

Congratulations! Congratulations!! Once again

Yours in service,

Dr. (Ms.) Dorothy Pinewood
website. www.yahoo.co.uk

WARNING!
You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be other Organizations of yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it from your mailbox and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned. Please send your reply to assigned claims manager and call him as well to facilitate the release of your won fund to you, email, drhmandla62@live.co.za : Telephone: +27747675226

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