419 scam: "Walmart Canada"<walmartcanada@walmartinfo.com> Walmart Canada alert in respond to your fund in the USA

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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:
- "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- walterfrank2001@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Walmart Canada" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <walterfrank2001@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:31:16 -0700
Subject: Walmart Canada alert in respond to your fund in the USA

WAL-MART CANADA CORP LOTTERY AWARD PAYMENT.

Head office: 1940 Argentia Rd,Mississauga ON, L5N 1P9 Canada
Fax: 1- 206-350-9593
Email: walterfrank2001@aol.com

We the Wal-Mart Canada Corp are pleased to inform you the result of

the concluded annual Final draws held on the (August 17th 2014) by

Wal-Mart Canada corp in cash Promotion to encourage their customer

all over the world, your Name and email address was among the 5

Lucky winners who won $US5 Million (FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE

DOLLARS) each of the Wal-Mart Corp Canada promotion Award Attached

to ticket number (5647600545189) and Ref No (2551256002/244). The

online draws was Conducted by a random selection of email address

and you where picked by an Advanced automated random computer search

from Wal-Mart Canada Corp in other To claim your $US5 Million

lottery program which is a new innovation by Wal-Mart Canada Corp,

is aimed at saying A BIG THANK YOU to all our customer all over the

world for making Wal-Mart their number one.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and

unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants and Scam

artists. All participants were selected through a computer ballot

system drawn from over 20,000 companies' and 30,000,000 individuals'

email addres from all over North America and the rest of the world.

This promotional program takes place every three years. You have to

be rest assured that this is real and legitimate.

You are hereby advice to get back to us either via fax or email

stated above with the below information in order for us to complete

your winning certificate and for further information regarding the

disbursement of your lottery win. FULL NAME AND ADDRESS: MOBILE

PHONE NUMBER WHERE YOU CAN ALWAYS BE REACH: OCCUPATION.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 10th of Sept, 2014.

After this date, all unclaimed funds will be included in the next

stake. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember

to quote your Reference and batch numbers above in all

correspondences.Our offshore promo payment officer in the United

State of America who is in charge will contact you for your payment

once we receive the above information from you as the legal

recipient of the said winning.

Thanks,
Regards,
Rob Walton
Chairman of the board of director

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