419 scam: "Joyce Raye"<joyce.raye444@me.net> Congratulations on Your Winning

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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 state 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)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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: "Joyce Raye" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <joyce.raye44@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 12:39:10 +0300
Subject: Congratulations on Your Winning

This message is from The United Nations Executive Council.

Your email address account has won you $5,500,000.00 (Five Million Five
hundred Thousand United State Dollars) in the just concluded 75th United
Nations General Assembly lottery draws, that was held in New York by
electronic random selection from World Wide Web Emails listed online
from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and South America,
Middle East and Africa, as part of our International empowerment
Promotion Program. This promotion takes place yearly.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies in conjunction with United Nations as part of
their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where
they have operational base.The result of this online e-mail address
free-ticket winning draws for 2020 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email
address won, with the reference number: UN/US/2007-20

Your winning number falls within our American representative's docket as
indicated in the play coupon. Get back to me to claim your winning
amount.

Due to possible mix up of e-mail address contacts, we ask you to keep
this award news private, from public notice until your money is paid to
you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid unscrupulous acts by some
of the participants of this program.

CONGRATULATIONS !!! Once again from all members of staff of The United
Nations Executive Council Lottery Organization and thank you for being a
part of our International Promotion program.

GET BACK TO ME TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE.

Yours Sincerely,

Joyce Raye
Director of International finance

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