419 scam: "Mrs. Joane Curtis"<bmw@windstream.com> BMW 2015 PROMOTION AWARD

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
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.
- michaelsanders128@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Joane Curtis" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michaelsanders229@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 02:45:20 -0400
Subject: BMW 2015 PROMOTION AWARD

Congratulations,

This is to officially congratulate you for been our new lucky winner in the BMW PROMOTION AWARD

which was held 1ST MARCH at the BMW show centre by the lottery department. The BMW lottery

group is glad to email you and tO inform you that you are the lucky winner in this year promotion

award with a grand price of $5 Million and a brand new 2014 Active hybrid BMW 3 series. BMW company

holds promotions each year just to promote global publicity and reputations as part of the plan to

exploit more corners of the world with our high value of product lines. This promotion is just one of the

various ways we are presently using to achieve this global vision.

The BMW Lottery award was approved by the British Gaming Board and also

Licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

To claim your prize, you are to contact one of the fiduciary agents for

more information as regards to the procedures to claim your prize.

Contact Name : Mr. Michael Sanders

Email: michaelsanders128@gmail.com

Contact him by providing him with your secret pin code Number BMW:4661256703/11/14.

You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible:

1. Name in full.

2. Address.

3. Age.

4. Occupation.

5. Phone/Fax.

8. Email address.

9. pin code Number

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until

your price is processed and your prize money remitted to you.

This is part of the precautionary measure to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse

of this program by some unscrupulous elements and equally to guard against non participant

or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this program.

NB: All winnings MUST be claimed before the STIPULATED TIME(ON OR BEFORE 31st MARCH 2015)

otherwise all prizes will be returned as Unclaimed, and eventually be reabsorbed into our

next lucky dip sweepstakes.

Mrs. Joane Curtis

DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS

BMW LOTTERY DEPARTMENT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

NOTE: You must be 18 years & above to claim your prize. Do not fail to keep your winning information personal. We will not

be responsible for any loss. TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLIED

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