419 scam: BILL PETERSIDE <barr.billpeterside4@gmail.com> REPLY

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
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!
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- barr.billpeterside01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BILL PETERSIDE <barr.billpeterside4@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 05:24:59 +0100
Subject: REPLY

Western Canada Lottery Corporation
Corporate Communications
6910-50th Avenue
Postal Bag 649
Settler, AB T0C 2L0

Winning Notification

Dear Lucky winning,

We happily announce to you the result of the National Lotto 6/49
lottery draws held on 1st August 2015, in Essex United Kingdom and
Ontario, Canada. All participants were selected randomly from World
Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over
10,000,00 companies and personal e-mail addresses. Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number: B9564 7560 4545 100 with serial number
046560 drew the winning numbers 26-34-35-37-39-47-48 a Bonus 2

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$820,000 in
cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/10. Our agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon
as you contact his office. To file for your claim, please contact our
corresponding agent immediately you read this message for quick and
urgent release of your fund, contact information is as follow: -

Name:BARRISTER BILL PETERSIDE
Email: barr.billpeterside01@gmail.com

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program
to all that have successfully won this competition and thank you for
being part of our promotional lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
BILL

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
All reply,correspondence and required personal data as written here in
under to this notification should be sent to your claims agent on the
email contact below immediately.for further processing details.

Name:BARRISTER BILL PETERSIDE
Email: barr.billpeterside01@gmail.com

FULL NAME....................
DATE OF BIRTH..............
ADDRESS....................
SEX.........................
AGE........................
NATIONALITY...........
OCCUPATION.............
TELEPHONE............
DATE..................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO...........................APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.

Please quote your reference,batch and winning number which can be
found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your
above stated data to help locate your file easily.For security
reasons,
we advice all winners to keep this information confidential(VERY
SECRET) from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
money remitted/released to you.This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
programme by some unscrupulous elements,equally to guard against
nonparticipant or our official personnel taking undue advantage of
this programme.

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