419 scam: "toyota 2011lappromotion" <toyota2011lapromotion@moerstaal.nl> CONGRATULATIONS !! THE TOYOTA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

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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.
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: "toyota 2011lappromotion" <toyota2011lapromotion@moerstaal.nl>
Reply-To: toyotalappromotion@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:07:09 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !! THE TOYOTA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2011 16:50:26 -0500
THE TOYOTA COMPANY LOTTRY/PRIZE AWARD DEPT: TOYOTA AVENUE STAMFORD BRIDGE
LONDON.SW1V 3DW UNITEDKINGDOM
CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOUR E-mail HAS WON YOU THE NEW (TOYOTA CAMRY 2011
MODEL) IN THE TOYOTA 2011 LOTTRY.
THE TOYOTA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on (10th January,2011) by Toyota in conjunction with
Shell Worldwide Promotion. Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who
have won the (TOYOTA CAMRY) each in THE TOYOTA COMPANY TWOWENTY ELEVEN NEW
YEAR LOTTRY.
However the results were released today 18th January, 2011 and your email
was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2011) and ballot number
(BT:12052011/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of
email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of
individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the E-draws.
However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to
different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection
process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email
selection machine (TOPAZ) to begin the claim processing of your prize you
are to click on the link below:
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/26625721/docx.startdtoyotaprizenotificationclaimonlinep.processing.doc
Yours Faithfully,

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