419 scam: "Nathaniel Philips"<estrellasegurida1@yahoo.com> MEGA MILLION LOTTERY PROMOTIONRFECTLYailsWinnerPŒë¸"

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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 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.
- +34634121838 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
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_suregidad@web2mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Nathaniel Philips" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info_suregidad@web2mail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:05:34 +0100
Subject: MEGA MILLION LOTTERY PROMOTION

MEGA MILLION LOTTERY PROMOTION
600N.10th STREET,
SACRAMENTO,CA,
95814,USA.

Congratulations,

We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent lottery draw held on the Draw #523 on 6/25/2010 Your email address attached to ticket number 2752465896 with serial number 652-662 draw lucky numbers 1 -2 -13 -19- 27 - 21 These numbers are updated the morning after the draw. For the most recent numbers drawn, visit the Winning Numbers page.

View Past Draw Results , which consequently won the 2nd category for a lump sum pay out of Six Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Eight Hundred and
Ten Euros (615,810.00 EUROS).Note that all participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 companies and 90,000 individual email addresses from all search engine and website (www)
. No tickets were sold. This lottery award program takes place every year and is promoted
and sponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei,Bill Gates of Microsoft inc. and other Corporate Organizations. This is to encourage the use of the internet worldwide.

Your prize award has been issued with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations and satisfactory report.For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning information str
ictly confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid making wrong payment and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

To file in for the processing of your prize winning, you are requested to contact our payment office here in Spain to assist you with your winnings and subsequent payments. Below is the contact information of the payment office here in Spain.
Central Office,
Management and Central Services:
Salamanca 52,ES-13370 Postdam
Espana.
Head of Department:Mr Felix Dia
Email: info_suregidad@web2mail.com
PHONE: +34 634-121-838
Website:www.calottery.com

Note, all winning must be claimed not less than two weeks after the date of this notice. To avoid delay in claiming your winning fund, you are therefore advised as matter of urgency to forward to Mr Felix Dia
(1) Your full names and address:...............................
2) Country of origin/home address:..............................
3) Tel/Fax..................
4) Your ticket num and serial number:..............................
5) Occupation:.................
Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our program.

Yours Sincerely,
Nathaniel Philips
(LOTTERY SECRETARY)

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