419 scam: "Abebi William"< richardwong@agrickcn.com> XYYYNFPTUB

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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:
- "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: "Abebi William" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <shellagent10@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:11:07 +0800
Subject: XYYYNFPTUB

shell prize redemption centre
208 Stockport road,
longsight, london
m60 2db - united kingdom

batch ref: /2010/yy

this is to inform you that you have won a prize money of usd{$500,000,00}united State dollars} for the 2010 International e-mail draw which is Organized by Shell Company of asian and europeshell Company collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to yahoo, aol, walla, gmail, american mail, russian mail, Indian mail, arabic mail, hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. six people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected winners. your ballot number fell in asian pacific region as a second category winner
payment of prize and claim
winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Shell Award must be claimed not later than 20 days from date of draw notification. any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.Stated below is your ticket number:
ticket number: 085-mxw9
this numbers fall within the asian location file, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims manager asian pacific region, with the details below and send your winning identification numbers to him;

1. full name...................................................
2. age..........................................................
3.sex...........................................................
4.address.......................................................
5.country.......................................................
6. mobile........................................................
7. home telephone................................................
8. occupation/position...........................................
9. company.......................................................
10.email address..................................................
11. ticket number.................................................

sincerely
asian and europe promotion

CMTIWBNIXMUTVVFCQFIUUEJPIFTBNQMCGUNXEL

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