419 scam: "Mr. Bill Thorburn"<lynn@360buy.com> Attn: Beneficiary (Your Unclaimed Award 1,750,000 GBP)

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- +447031805622 (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.
- verificationdpt08@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Bill Thorburn" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <verificationdpt08@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:36:17 -0800
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary (Your Unclaimed Award 1,750,000 GBP)

GOLDEN CASKET LOTTERY INC
P.O. BOX, 1897, Dublin, Ireland
Tel: +44-(703) 180-5622
Ref: GCUK/2031/8162/05
Batch: R4/A312-53

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Bill Thorburn the Chief Executive of Golden Casket Lottery Corporation Limited with her head office situated in Queensland Australia and also in the Irish Republic. The Purpose of writing you this letter is to inform you that after a concrete review of our beneficiary list since the past 3 years, our financial auditors discoverred that your email address with Ref Number GCUK/2031/8162/05 was listed in our central computer among unpaid lottery beneficiaries till date and it is their duty to report such notice to the Executive Board.

Furthermore, be informed that your email appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who is to receive the sum of One Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Britain Pounds (1,750,000.00 GBP) won by you in the January 2009 edition of the Golden Casket Non Ticket Application Lottery in which your email attached to Reference Number GCUK/2031/8162/05 and Batch Number R4/A312-53 was selected anonymously and emerged as one of the lucky Twenty selected email addresses. I have sent several emails to you but got no response from you.

However, I received an application for claim from one Mr. Kurt Morris with a different email address who claimed he is your next of kin, claiming that you are dead and by right as your next of kin he is entitled to the above mentioned amount. He also submitted his bank account particulars where he wants the said fund transferred to.

Could you please confirm if the email address I used in sending you this message, which I saw in our records is still valid because Mr. Kurt Morris claimed that your email address is no longer valid.

If I don't hear from you after 72 hours from the date I sent you this message, I will consider my investigation a waste of time and conclude that Mr. Morris claim is right and we shall have no other option than to act accordingly to his instruction because by right, if a winners funds is unclaimd within a period of 3 years, anybody with the Ref and Batch No claiming to be the Next of Kin of the winner can have full right over the funds so please treat this as highly important and get back to me urgently by sending a copy of your reply to ( verificationdpt08@gmail.com )

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Bill Thorburn
Chief Executive Officer
GOLDEN CASKET LOTTERY INC
Direct Email: verificationdpt08@gmail.com

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