419 scam: "Mr. Fredrik Adsjorn"<test@alborzbms.ir> Congratulations on your winnings!!

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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: "Mr. Fredrik Adsjorn" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <swedcoordinate2011@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 02:22:25 +0930
Subject: Congratulations on your winnings!!

From the coordinator

Swedish National Lottery

Svenska PostkodStiftelsen,

Box 193, 101 23 Stockholm,

Sweden.

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Congratulations on your winnings!!

This is to intimate you that approvals have been given for the immediate remittance of your online lottery winnings from the Swedish National Lottery of which draws were completed early this year. The online lotto was made through a random shuffle of online users as at a particular time. Certainly you may not have entered for this lottery but your email won the lottery for you.

A totally sum of Two million five hundred thousand Euros have been allocated to you as your winning and have been duly approved for immediate payment to your designated bank account via telegraphic transfer (T/T) by the Swedish National Lottery accredited bankers (Swedbank AB Sweden). You are therefore required to contact this office immediately for further directives of payment.

Please note that your disregard to this message would only express refusal to claim lottery winnings hence, we shall cancel your payment and allocate it to charity.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Fredrik Adsjorn

National coordinator

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