419 scam: "F.Manila"<f.manila@mail.com> 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:

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:
- "alex-fil@qq.com" (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!

Fraud email example:

From: "F.Manila" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Alex-fil@qq.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:31:27 +0200
Subject: ALERT!!!

FREE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO
(PRIZE AWARD DEPT)
Headquarters:
PIAZZA GAE AULENTI 3-TOWER A
20154 MILANO.ITALY.
REF NO: IT/559237/2014
BATCH NO: FIL/24098/IT2014.

WINNING NOTIFICATION.

This is to notify you that you are one of our Lucky Winners of this year FREE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO ON-LINE PROMOTION held recently in Rome,Italy.

Please note that this is a Free Lotto Promo that you never entered nor play but your E-mail Address was among the winning E-mail Addresses that were randomly selected by our team of microsoft experts using the synchronise balloting system program(SBSP).

Your fund would be released to you conveniently by our pay out Bank, where you will be adequately paid either by Bank Wire or ATM CARD, after proper verification by our legal department and sign your final fund release order.

Please be aware that your winning prize is Ð‚250,000.00 Euros(Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros Only) which has been insured under insurance fund policy, which confirms that you
will receive your winning fund complete without any deduction from the fund by this organisation or the Bank excepts you the beneficiary for security reasons.

Be advised to keep all informations contained in this mail away from the public to avoid cases of double claims,which will be authomatically nullified.
This notice remains invalid two weeks from the date of notification and your winning prize will be marked unclaimed and remitted back to the account
of â€œFREE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO" as unclaimed Fund.

Please contact Claims Payment Manager Mr.Allezandro.Forti.(Pay Manager) via email(:Alex-fil@qq.com),with the under listed details for payment to commence.

Reference Number:...
Batch Number:..
Full Names:...
Residential Address:...
Nationality:..
Phone Code/ Number...

Send the above required datas as soon as you receive this email to commence processing of your prize immediately.

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs.Federica Manila
Promotion Manager,
FREE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO.

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