419 scam: CUSTOMER CARE <ambassadormccully55@yahoo.com.ph> URGENT RESPONSED TO THIS OFFICE IMMEDIATE YOU RECEIVED

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: CUSTOMER CARE <ambassadormccully55@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: y.care40@ymail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:59:04 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSED TO THIS OFFICE IMMEDIATE YOU RECEIVED

URGENT RESPONSED TO THIS OFFICE IMMEDIATE YOU RECEIVED

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Dear Account Owner,

It has come to our notice that youremail has not passed the verification/Update process that we arepresently working on. We are currently upgrading our data base ande-mail account center .We are deleting all Old Web mail email accountto create more space for new accounts.. To prevent your account fromclosing you will have to update it so that we will know that it's apresent used account. To complete your account re-confirmation, youmust reply to this email immediately and enter your account details asrequested below.

****IMPORTANT :
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Email User-name :
EMAIL Pass-word :
Date of Birth :
Country or Territory :
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ALL YOUR IMPORTANTS SHOULD BE VERIFY ALSO:

This updating is compulsory as aresult of our recent server changes. If you fail to update your emailaddress you will soon be unable to receive/send mails.Also your emailwill not be equipped with the latest anti-virus system in our newservers. This will make your email and PC vulnerable to virus attacksfrom the internet.

****HOW TO UPDATE:

To update simply reply the above toupgrading admin as appropriate. Failure to do so immediately will leadto SUSPENSION OF YOUR ACCOUNT.
Thanks for your co-operation,
Web-mail Administrator

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