419 scam: "National Lottery Award." <wiliamsanthony@ymail.com> Congratulations lucky winner!!!

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",000,000" (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)
- "we advice you" (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!
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.
- williamsanthony517@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "National Lottery Award." <wiliamsanthony@ymail.com>
Reply-To: williamsanthony517@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 22:23:02 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Congratulations lucky winner!!!

21 Vincent Square,
London SW1P2LX, UK

File Ref Number/ NLL/0012/3499443
Batch Number/ 014790
Draw Number/ 1603

Dear Prize Winner,

We are pleased to announce to you the release of The National Lottery Award result conducted from our online electronic computer balloting over your email success. This is partially based on an electronic selection of winners in which e-mail addresses were pulled together from a wide range of worldwide e-mail users and internet subscribers.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from an exclusive list of Seven hundred thousand e-mail addresses from all over the world as part of our international promotion programme which is conducted twice annually. Your e-mail address drew the lucky numbers as follows (10) (16) (29) (30) dasiy morrison: (32) (12) and bonus number (34) which consequently won
the lottery award in the third category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of £1,000,000.00 GBP (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file Ref Number NLL/0012/3499443 as your won prize. The draw no.1603 pulled out your e-mail address from a database of Internet e-mail users and qualified you a bonafide winner of the stated winning amount in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.

Companies and sponsors of this National Award Promotion are as follows;

Dell Computer Company.
Heineken Company.
Coca-Cola Company.
Bellsouth Technology.

Private individual sponsors are;
1) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the (United Kingdom England).
2) Warren Edward Buffett of the (United States of America).
3) Prince Al-waleed Bin Talal Alsaud of the (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).

For claim and payment of your winning prize, kindly contact our Accredited Claims agent Mr. Williams Anthony via e-mail (williamsanthony517@yahoo.com) providing the below stated claims requirements for the processing of your winning.

Claims Requirements:
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1. Full Name: 2. Nationality: 3. Date of Birth: 4. Sex: 5. Marital
Status: 6. Contact Address: 7. Mobile Number: 8. Profession:
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Therefore you are to email the above address of your claims agent immediately providing your claims requirements in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.

For security reasons, we advice you keep your winning information confidential and private from the general public until your claim is been processed and released to you. This is part of our precautionary measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programmed, please be warned.

Congratulations once again on your lucky winning.

Signed.

David Quest
Chief Operating Officer/ President of Media Networks.
National Lottery Award.

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