419 scam: "Mrs. Mary Paul"<info@zemiinc.co.kr> Facebook Online International Lottery

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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:
- "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",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)
- "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!
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.
- info.intloteryagent54@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Mary Paul" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.intloteryagent54@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:08:10 +0200
Subject: Facebook Online International Lottery

Facebook Online International Lottery
From: The Desk Of the President.
International Promotions / Prize Award.
Category: 2nd

Greetings to you Dear lucky winner. We are pleased to inform you of

the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the

20th of July 2013 by Facebook group in cash promotion to encourage

the usage of Facebook worldwide. Your e-mail address was among the

20 lucky winners who won $950.000.00USD (Nine hundred and Fifty

Thousand United State Dollars) each on the Facebook group promotion

award attached to Lucky Number (FB-225-7736), Ticket Number

(FB-172-60), Batch Number (FB-0281/544) and Serial Number

(99352748-2013).

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of emails you

were picked by an advanced automated random computer search from

the Facebook in other to claim your $950.000.00usd the lottery

program which is a new innovation by Facebook, is aimed at saying a

big thank you to all our users for making Facebook their number one

means to connect, communicate, relate and hook up with their

families and friends over the years.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and

unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants and scam

artists all participants were selected through a computer ballot

system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individuals

email addresses from all over the world. This promotional program

takes place every three years. You may be rest assured that this is

real and legal. There are some scam artists around but thanks to

the FBI, 86 of them have been arrested.

You are required to contact the head of our disbursement department

in the person of Mr. Michael Moore via this email address

(info.intloteryagent54@gmail.com) with information below for the

complete processing of your Winning certificate and further

information regarding the disbursement of your lottery winnings.

Full Name:
Residential Address:
Mobile Number:
Occupation:
Marital Status:
Sex:
Age:
Country of Residence:
Nationality:
Lucky Number:
Ticket Number:
Batch Number:
Serial Number:
Your Email Address:

Furthermore, if there is any change in email addresses please

contact us on time. Do not reply to this email, Contact the

disbursement department with the email provided above.

Thanks and more Congratulations!

Regards,
Mrs.Mary Paul
Announcer.

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