419 scam: "BP Oil Foundation"<shivashankari.b@alchemysolutions.in> Lottery Notification

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

Fraud email example:

From: "BP Oil Foundation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drcharliewilkinson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:24:25 +0800
Subject: Lottery Notification

BP P.L.C.
BP OIL FOUNDATION
International Headquarters
1 St James's Square
London, SW1Y 4PD,
United Kingdom.

Payment Information:-

Reference Number: 575061725
Batch Number: 8056490902/188
Winning Numbers: 1 3 37 31 55 73

Dear Donation Beneficiary,

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR WINNING

The BP Foundation London on behalf of BP P.L.C. is glad to inform you that you have been approved a total sum pay of £850,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) in cash credit to file Ref Number: ILP/HW46704/014 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

BP Foundation in Conjunction with BP P.L.C. and the World Government are working hard to make the environment a safer place while supporting the under privilege and hardworking citizens of the World, visit http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/01/0114_most_generous_corporate_foundations/12.htm for more information.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Kindly contact The Agent in charge of the payment process using the details below:-

Name: Dr. Charlie Wilkinson.
Email: drcharliewilkinson@yahoo.com
Telephone: +18507922536

Quote your Reference, Batch and Winning Numbers (which can be found on the top left corner of this notification.) alongside your Personal Information for verification.

For security reasons, we advise all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize Money released to you. All information is strictly confidential and will only be used for the purpose to which it is been requested.

On behalf of the entire Board, I say Congratulations!!!

Best Regards,
Mrs. Elizabeth Woods.
Grants Coordinator.

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