419 scam: "MARIO.AL"<jbarnet63@gmail.com> WINNING ALERT

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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.
- claimsdept2014@email.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MARIO.AL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <claimsdept2014@email.it>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 19:13:19 +0200
Subject: WINNING ALERT

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you again of the result of the Internet Promotional
Draws. All email Addresses entered for this Promotional Draws were randomly
inputted from an Internet Resource Database using the Synchronized Random
Selection System (SRSS).

Your Email Address was selected in the Category A with Special Ticket Digit Code:
RMA33264/2013-14,this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand prize (€1.5M EUROS)
award sum of Two million, five hundred thousand Euros.

Your winning price money will be paid to you and after the final validations
and satisfactory report that you are the rightful owner of this Winning Email
Address. In line with the governing rules of claims, you are required to
contactthe Enquiry Officer(Foreign Claim Dept) via email or telephone with
the particulars below:

Name:,
Address:,
Country;,
Cell Phone:,
Email:,
Occupation:,
and E-ticket number:

Please contact Mr.Lucas.C, the Enquiry Officer via the e-mail address below
with the information's necessary:

Mr.Lucas Conti
Enquiry officer
Foreign Claims Dept.
Tel: +39 35 100 57141
Email;claimsdept2014@email.it

Regards,
Mario Al..
Promotion Coordinator.

NOTE;.....Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this notice
will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence
your claims process immediately, by contacting the Enquiry Officer(Lucas Conti)
who would be guiding you through the Claims process.
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