419 scam: "Facebook online promotion 2017"<esme.williams11@follow-e.com> CONGRATS!!! WINNER OF FACEBOOK ONLINE PROMOTION 2017

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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.
- tomson.rich@usa.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Facebook online promotion 2017" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tomson.rich@usa.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 06:45:22 -0400
Subject: CONGRATS!!! WINNER OF FACEBOOK ONLINE PROMOTION 2017

Hello Facebook User

How are you enjoying this social platform Facebook???

I'm Rich Tomson, I work with Facebook as an online senior coordinator.

Am delighted to inform you that your Facebook name was selected among the the 20,000 lucky winner's from the ongoing Facebook online promotion 2017 which is for real and legitimate that you have just won the sum of $850,000.00USD. The Final draw was held at the Facebook Head Office in California,

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of accounts you
were picked by an advanced automated random computer search from Facebook in other to claim your $850,000.00USD the promo program which is a new innovation by Facebook, is aimed at saying a big thank you to all our users for making Facebook their number one means to connect,communicate, relate and hook up with their families and friends over the years.

ALERT:We didn't publish it because of some reasons ,each time we publish something like this ,scam persons and hackers always use the opportunity to scam people .so now we decided to go directly to our winners and give them there winning .

Firstly you will have to secure this numbers because it is important and compulsory.lucky No (2551256002/244),Serial Number (55643451907) Do write it down now very important.

NOTE: YOU ARE ADVISED TO KEEP THE NEWS OF YOUR WINNINGS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.DO NOT TELL ANY INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF PEOPLE ABOUT YOUR WINNINGS DUE TO SECURITY REASONS THAT IS SOMEONE ELSE COMING BEHIND YOU TO CLAIM THE WINNINGS AND IT IS AGAINST THE LAW AND POLICY GUIDING THIS LOTTERY SO ADHERE TO IT OR VIOLATION OF THIS POLICY WILL RESULT INTO THE CANCELLATION OF YOUR WINNINGS.

Contact us via: tomson.rich@usa.com

REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BY RE-CONFIRMING

1.) FULL NAME: .............................. .............................. .
2.) AGE: .............................. .............................. .......
3.) SEX: .............................. .............................. .......
4.) ADDRESS: .............................. .............................. ...
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE: .............................. .........................
6.) STATE/PROVINCE: .............................. ..........................
7.) COUNTRY: .............................. .............................. ...
8.) PHONE/MOBILE (OFFICE OR HOME): .............................. ..........
9.) SERIAL NO#: .............................. ...............
10.) TICKET NUMBER: .............................. ..........................
11.) COMPANY: .............................. ..........................
12.)OCCUPATION : .............................. ...........................

WE AWAIT YOUR FAST RESPONSE.
THANKS AND MORE CONGRATULATIONS,
REGARDS
DAVE WEHNER
HEAD OF DISBURSEMENT DEPARTMENT.
APPROVED BY
MARK ZUCKERBERG
FOUNDER / CEO FACEBOOK

Email 1: facebook.company.promo2017@ africamail.com

Email 2: facebook.company.promo2017@ asia.com

Email 3 : facebook.company.promo2017@ europe.com

Email 4: facebook.company.promo2017@ usa.com

WEBSITE: https://web.facebook. com

Address .. 1 HK way ,
Menlo park,94056 CA.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam