419 scam: World People's Choice Lottery <pete@tal.ru> From People's Choice Lottery

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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.
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.
- malsheikhabdulaziz@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: World People's Choice Lottery <pete@tal.ru>
Reply-To: malsheikhabdulaziz@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:43:13 +0300
Subject: From People's Choice Lottery

--
World People's Choice Lottery
>From People's Choice Lottery

We are happy to announce to you that you have won a cash award of
$6,250,000.00at the Accra Payment Center of the first International Draw
of
World People's Choice Lottery for the Year 2015.Your email address was
attached to a Ticket Number: #62-16-85-08-17-33 which drew Five out of six
winning numbers which consequently won the 2nd category of the cash award
of
$6,250,000.00 ( Six Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars).

Batch Number: AC/WPCL432/861/0D
Draw Date: December 21 2015

Your email address was among the (3) email addresses chosen to receive the
prize of US$6,250,000.00 each in this section. Also, Immediately after
payment have been issued to you, you will be required to support
Charity, Youth,Education and Health and Wellness in your
community. Also, we expect you to use some of the money to spread Internet
knowledge within your locality. We have five clearance offices zoned
continental for payment namely Edmonton,Las Vegas,Beijing,London & Accra.

For Payment, you are to contact immediately without any further delay
Mr. Abdulaziz M. Al-Sheikh of the WPCL Accra Center for immediate
verification
and procession for payment.

Mr.Abdulaziz M. Al-Sheikh,
Email: malsheikhabdulaziz@gmail.com
World People's Choice Lottery
Address: Accra International Center

Your clearance Officer will facilitate the process for immediate payment.
Contact him with your details;

Full Name: Address: Tel No. : Nationality: Ticket Number# :
62-16-85-08-17-33 Batch Number: AC/WPCL432/861/0D

Note that the details will be posted on our Site as one of the winners of
the
End Of Year World People's Choice Lottery.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Yours Faithfully

Mrs Grace Wu.Atah

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the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain
information
that is
privileged,confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law.
If
the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any
dissemination,distribution or copying of this communication is strictly
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