419 scam: "Euromillions Lottery"<lotteryeuromillions@yahoo.com> YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNERS.

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "lottery.euromillion@ymail.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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: "Euromillions Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lottery.euromillion@ymail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:24:13 +0300
Subject: YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNERS.

Dear winner,

The EuroMillions Lottery Jackpot Award on Christmas Eve for the

Computer Email Users Promotion of 2010 is here to inform you that,

this Email Address is one of the Twenty (20) lucky Emails which

has won ?3,500,000.00 euro (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand

Euro only) in the first category of our computer ballot email

lottery with the: LUCKY SECRET CODE NUMBER: 097775, and the

BATCH/REFFRENCE NUMBER: PVR/95L-7775UNLC.Be informed that no

ticket was sold for this category of EuroMillions rollover jackpot

lotto draw, but it is propagated on a selection of EuroMillions

Rollover Tips to encourage the email ID users. Therefore, in order

to claim your winning prize, please contact the Asian/Middle-East

paying agent office by sending your information’s stated below to

our Asian/Middle-East paying agent Email;

lottery.euromillion@ymail.com

FULL NAME..................................
AGE.................................................
SEX.........................................
ADDRES...................................
NATIONALITY...............................
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER............................
LUCKY SECRET CODE NUMBER.................
BATCH NUMBER/REFFRENCE NUMBER............

NOTE: Any winner below 18 years of age will be disqualified

automatically. Euro Millions is a European lottery that takes

place once a week, on Friday evening. Whereas national lotteries

are generally limited to the residents of one particular country,

the Euro Millions lottery pools the stakes of the participating

European countries. This obviously makes the prizes a great deal

larger than in national lotteries even in normal circumstances.

But because the main prize pool is “rolled over” to the next draw

if there is no jackpot winner, prizes can - after a few weeks

without a winner - be as high as 50 million Euros.

Congratulations,

Yours Faithfully
Mr. Rogerbart David
On behalf of; Euromillions Lottery

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