419 scam: iMesh Inc. <imeshinc@mail.com> Re: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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

Fraud email example:

From: iMesh Inc. <imeshinc@mail.com>
Reply-To: customerscarerbc@mail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:45:58 -0600
Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

On behalf of iMesh Management, this is to inform you that you are one of the Lucky Winner of the Mid Year online Music Boom Lotto Program that was held on 23rd of June, 2014 through a computer random system. Your Profile is attached to file REF: 192361411 with Serial number 116238098... You won in the fourth category. You are hereby Congratulated for the winning of a lump sum pay out of $225,000.00 in cash, credited to Ticket number 113-0705649for the total cash prize for fifteen (15) lucky winners in this category. This Program is promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies(corporate sponsors: UNICEF, Google Inc, Coca cola, Health Net, Citibank, American Airlines, Bank of America, Staples, WalMart / Sam's Club, Bello Toshiba, McDonald's, Omega World Travel and some music companies: Universal Music Group, Rhapsody Music, International Music Co., Bertelsmann (BMG), EMI Music, Sony Music and Warner Music as part of their social responsibility to their users and customers in the Aspect that impacts peoples lifestyle worldwide. More than 20 million people are on Imesh making friends, download all types of Music. We are dedicated to just one motive - making meeting of new people, share and listen to music together, upload photos, and much more as easy as possible. All participant were selected through an online game in more than 17 million users e-mail address on this website from the listed countries: Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

Therefore, your winning details falls within our American representative office in California (USA), as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $225,000.00 (Two hundred and tewnty five thousand Dollars) will be released to you from our branch office in California (Calexico), USA.

We hope with part of your prize in this winning, you will participate in our new year high stakes for US$2.1 Million International Draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR WINNINGS
Simply contact the Claim Management
Name - Shuan Burner
E-mail Address - customerscarerbc@mail.com
Phone Number- 0110059030
Please quote your winning details and your profile information, this will help locate your file easily as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we ask that you keep this notification strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non-participant or unofficial personnel taking advantage of this program.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before the end of this program; otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations.
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION. NOTE THAT FOR SECURITY REASONS, THIS NOTIFICATION WILL BE DELETED AS SOON AS YOU GET THE DETAILS DOWN.

Once again Congratulations on your winnings.
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Introducing the New IMesh Software, iMesh Version 10, Based on your feedback, we've made some improvements:
* Slick visuals and a simple layout make browsing your music and videos easier than ever before!
Your library has never been this organized.
* iMesh handles HD videos with ease in its new video modes.
Play HD videos inside iMesh, pop them out to float mode, or go full screen.
We hope you enjoy these new features and that you will continue to help us provide innovations that make

your experience the best it can be.

The iMesh Team
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