419 scam: "POWERBALL JACKPOT"<info@lotto.org> ATTN: Winner

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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:
- "million pounds" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- +447031942330 (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.
- uklottery982@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "POWERBALL JACKPOT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <uklottery982@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:08:30 -0800
Subject: ATTN: Winner

POWERBALL JACKPOT.
£5, 000.000.00 (Five million Pounds)

ATTN: Winner.
CONGRATULATIONS,

If you are the correct owner of this EMAIL ADDRESS, then be glad this dayas
the result of the POWERBALL JACKPOT lottery online e-mail address
free-ticket winning draws of December , 2013 held here in London has just been
released, and you have been awarded the sum of £5, 000.000.00
(Five million Pounds) by the committee set up by the lottery Board

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without buying a ticket, then
know again that this very draw of December 2013 in which you have emerged as a
winner was a free ticket online email address draws where thousands of
email addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used
for the online draws and during selection your email address came out as the
winner of the draw

To begin your claim process, please contact your claims manager with details
below

NAME:
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COUNTRY:
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ADDRESS:
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CITY:
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CELL PHONE:
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FAX NUMBER
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OCCUPATION:
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MARITAL STATUS:
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Gender:
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AGE:
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EMAIL:
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Mr. Loveman Wood
Claims Verification Department
Email:uklottery982@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: +44-703-194-2330

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