419 scam: "Julius Adams" <julietxjohn@gmail.com> 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:

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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Julius Adams" <julietxjohn@gmail.com>
Reply-To: julietxjohn10@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 08:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

Dear prize winner,

We are pleased to inform you that you have won the sum of 1,000.000.00 GBP Pounds (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) from the American online Promotion (Aol) 2014 awards program. American Online Foundation UK was established in 1983 by Americans Multi-Million Groups and is now currently supported by the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

To celebrate 31 years anniversary program, the American Internet Fund London, together with a number of national companies and other relevant bodies in the production of an annual donation of 1,000.000.00 GBP British Pound Sterling (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) to eight lucky recipients. You were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of 1,000.000.00 GBP Pounds (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) as charity donations / aid from the American Foundation for England in accordance with enabling act of Parliament.

Companies and sponsors of this award from the American online Promotion are below.

Dell Computer Company.
Toyota Company
Heineken Company.
Coca-Cola Company.
Bellsouth Technology.

Private individual donors.

1) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the (United Kingdom England).
2) Warren Edward Buffett Organization (USA).
3) Roman Abramovich Organization (Russia).
4) Prince Al-waleed Bin Talal Alsaud of the (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).

For claim and payment of your won prize; Contact: julietxjohn10@outlook.com

You are required to fill out this form as indicated below and send to the above e-mail of the bank for payment processing:
1. Full Name
2. Nationality
3. Date of Birth
4. Sex
5. Marital Status
6. Contact Address
7. Mobile Telephone number
8. Profession

We congratulate you on your lucky winning and advice you to make Judicious use of your Prize when it gets to you.

Signed,

Dr (Mrs) Juliet John.
Chief Operating Officer
America Online / President of Media Networks Aol.

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