419 scam: fund fund <fundfund09@hotmail.com> WINNING NOTIFICATION ON FACEBOOK PROMOTION

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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:
- "million pounds" (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)
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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447071748587 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
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.
- michaeldoveclaimmanager1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: fund fund <fundfund09@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 14:19:02 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION ON FACEBOOK PROMOTION

British National Lotto
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool, L30 1RD
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 12/25/0034
PH: +44 707 174 8587
WEB: SITE: WWW.THEBIGBIGLOTTO.COM

This is to inform you that your email address has won a jackpot with FACEBOOK® Lottery Promotions for the year 2020 that was organized by FACEBOOK with Big British National. Your email with serial number 5388/02 and ticket number 564 75600545 188 hit the jackpot. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000, 000.00 cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02/SHYN. This is from a total cash prize of £20 Million Pounds shared among Lucky winners in this category.

Facebook is one of the largest Social Networking site which valued more than $100 Billion Dollars and also expecting its One Billion Users to come mainly from Mobile devices than desktop Users by this year 2017, So Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has decided to boost Users and Companies with a WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY by Lottery Program and Initial Public Offer which was said in a press release.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from FACEBOOK users and other email users from company and individual email addresses users worldwide. All winning must be claimed not later than 21 working days from the time of notification. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

The online draw was Conducted by a random selection of email which where picked by an Advanced automated random computer search from the Facebook in other to claim your prize Money the lottery program which is a new innovation by Facebook, is aimed at saying A BIG THANKS to all our users for making Facebook number one Social Networking to hook up with their families and friends all over the World.

You are advised to keep this notice to yourself because of individuals who may divert your money to theirs and they also use our company to deceive others, you are advised to report back by means of email only.

CONTACT YOUR CLAIM OFFICER FOR THE CLAIM OF YOUR PRIZE MONEY
GLOBE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Name: MICHAEL DOVE
E-mail: michaeldoveclaimmanager1@gmail.com

Also send him all the required information’s to enable him process your funds.
1. Full Name -------------------------------
2. Address. -----------------------------------
3. Country. --------------------------------------
4. Mobile /Fax number. -------------------------------
5. Occupation ------------------------------------------------
6. Age -------------------------------

Congratulations from the staff, and thank you for being part of email account users of this program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Lotto Co-coordinator

NB: THIS PROGRAM IS BEEN SPONSORED BY MICROSOFT, YAHOO INC, GMAIL INC , FACEBOOK INC AND OTHER CONGLOMORATE COMPANIES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Sorry if you received this letter in your Spam, Due to recent connection error here in UK.Sorry for the inconvenience.

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