419 scam: "Mr. Josh Adams" <fadu452@gmail.com> Re: Congratulations From Georgia Lottery Organization

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "info.glotery@collector.org" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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. Josh Adams" <fadu452@gmail.com>
Reply-To: smnu5833@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:58:34 -0800
Subject: Re: Congratulations From Georgia Lottery Organization

GEORGIA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
FREE TICKET ONLINE WINNING DRAW.

Greetings Winner,

Are you the correct owner of this email address? If yes, then be glad
this day as the result of the Georgia Lottery online free-ticket
winning draws of February 13th, 2020 held in Atlanta Georgia, United
States of America has just been released and we are glad to announce
to you that your email address has won you the sweepstakes in the
first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of Five Million
Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars(US$5,600,000.00). Your
email address was entered for the online draw on this ticket No:
546-373-66773 and won on this Lucky No:
(14)-(8)-(5)-(19)-(28)-(12)-(30).

For claims, contact
Name: Mr. Andy Davis
Email address: info.glotery@collector.org
Tel: +1 (678) 639-9573

On how to receive your won prize of US$5.6M(Five Million Six Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars Only) to enable Mr. Andy Davis
ascertain you as the rightful winner of the $5.6M dollars US, MAKE
SURE you include the listed information in your contact email to him.
Your complete official names, country of origin and country of
residence/work, contact telephone and mobile numbers, address, amount
won, free ticket and lucky numbers, date of draw. OPTIONAL: - [Sex,
age, occupation and job title].

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without entering then
know again that this very draw of the Georgia Lottery Organization in
which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket online email
address draws were thousands of email addresses was collected from
almost all world wide websites and used for the online
draws/sweepstakes and during winners selection your email address came
out among the first ten which won you the lottery in the first
winnings category and entitles you to claim the US$5,600,000.00
dollars.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Josh Adams.
GEORGIA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION.
Online Winning Notification Department.

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