419 scam: "Canadian Lottery Promo" <fifa_agent@gala.net> YOU ARE SO LUCKY""

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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:
- "patriciatkins@gala.net" (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!
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.
- +447011139285 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Canadian Lottery Promo" <fifa_agent@gala.net>
Reply-To: koelbankplc@cnonline.net
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:51:03 -0300
Subject: YOU ARE SO LUCKY""

CANADA LOTTERY/ EMAIL DRAW .LOTTO 649 1550
Princess Street Kingston,ON, Canada,K7M 9E3.
UK Office No 13 Liverpool Road,
Islingson United Kingdom 24 hrs.
Tel: +44-7011-139-285.

Dear Sir/ Madam

We announce to you that your e-mail address has made you a winner of
$4,278,833.00 CAD, in the Canadian Lottery On-line Result Promo, Reference
number & Batch Number: Batch No. Lotto 6/49.
All participants were selected randomly from Worldwide Website through
computer draws system and extracted from Canadian Gaming search engine, over
10,000 00 companies and personal e-mails, which your e-mail address was
luckily to be found among the second category. Your e-mail address attached
to winning Batch No. Lotto 6/49 for WED SAT 03/03 Bonus 45 Draw for LOTTO
6/49 under the choice of the lottery in the 2ND category of daily three,
which made you a winner of $4,278,833.00 CAD (Four Million Tow Hundred and
Seventy Eight Thousand, Eight Hundred and thirty Three CAD).

NOTE: For confirmation of your winning numbers in Game Lotto 6/49, visits
below website and view under Result for confirmation of your Online payout
winning number: http://www.canada.com/life/lotteries/lottery_results.html

Your winning informations must be kept strictly confidential to your self,
until your funds have been processed and prize Lotto 6/49 payout to you by
the bank. In view of this, your funds would be released to you by our
correspondent Affiliate accredited commercial online Bank in UNITED KINGDOM
(BARCLAYS BANK LONDON).
For more information's contact our correspondent affiliate claims department
officer, for the release and processing of your total winning prize
$4,278,833.00 CAD, for the release with the Barclays Bank London.

Contact and use below information: You must respond and reply to below two e-
mail account for processing of your winning claim prize $4,278,833.00
_________________________

Foreign Claim Dept Officer
Name: Mr. Patric Atkins
E-mail: patriciatkins@gala.net
Tel: +447011139285
________________________
Correspond with above department for your winning prize claim and precesses
release buy the Barclays Bank London Plc.

>From Prof Officer Dr. Walter William (Notification Coordinator Dept)

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