419 scam: Promotion Result <tonga@mobitel.com.kh> Apple Winning details.

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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:
- ",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)
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.
- +447035960866 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
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.
- apple.bureau@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Promotion Result <tonga@mobitel.com.kh>
Reply-To: apple.anniversary@ymail.com
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:22:06 +0700
Subject: Apple Winning details.

Apple Inc
Promotion/Prize Award Dept.
Ref: 4 Queens Road, London
Watford WD18 9BR
United Kingdom.

Registration details

Registered office: Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts WD18 9RN
Registered in England and Wales No. 2822203

APPLE 30TH WORLD-WIDE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION PROMO.

This program is organized by Apple Company, endorsed by the European
Promo guild in conjunction with NGO organizations in Switzerland.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded draws
of Apple Inc Promo program, Apple Promo draw was conducted on-line by
an automated random computer ballot Search from the Internet. No
tickets were sold. This draw is conducted to mark Apple 30th years of
production.

Apple 30th Anniversary Promo was conducted from an exclusive list of
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies. The selection
process was carried out through random selection in our computerized
email selection machine from a database of over 2,500,000 email
addresses drawn from all the continents of the world. Emails were
provided by the entire register domain.

This result is now released to you. And your email address attached in
the A Category. All email addresses were selected through a computer
ballot system in which your email address was selected as one of the
lucky winners, your lucky number is: (01) (04) (28) (26) (27) (49)
(21). And bonus ball number (29), which consequently emerged you as
the only winner in the United Kingdom Booklet.

You been approved for a lump prize off of £1,400,000.00 (One Million,
Four Hundred Thousand British pounds) in cash credited to File
APP/EBD/011.

To begin your claim, you are required to send the necessary
information to our London help line below: Name---- Country----
Address--- Occupation--- Lucky number--- bonus ball number---

Helpline Service
Mr. Philips Anderson
Information and Payment Bureau:
London Representative Office.
Tel: +44-703-596-0866
Tel: +44-702-408-5616
Tel: +44-703-597-0143
Fax: +44-844-774-2197
Email: apple.bureau@yahoo.co.uk

Cc

Mrs, Selin Dulge
Promotions Manager
Apple Promo Board

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