419 scam: "Yahoo Mail"<test@bricks-corp.com> CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL WON US$1,000,000.00 DOLLARS

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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:
- "million united state dollars" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- +66943547335 (Thailand, probably a mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Yahoo Mail" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stevechai@syvip.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 02:07:26 +0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL WON US$1,000,000.00 DOLLARS

YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ORGANIZATION.
Bangkok Branch Office
Address: Soi 21,Patpong road,
Samutprakarn Bangkok 10400
Thailand.

Dear Winner,

Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 11 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the year 2014 Held this month.

All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States Of America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS (US$1,000,000.00).

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Furthermore, your details (e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of (US$1,000,000.00.) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.

Your fund is now deposited with our prize award payment Bank/Security firm in Thailand, and the funds has already being insured with your winning identification information. Due to mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice (secret) until your claim is processed and your winning prize funds remitted into your bank account, as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

Below are your identification numbers which will be used to claim your prize money.

Ticket No: 224-12870074-01, Serial No: 41677-9, Lucky No: 57-58-23-98-66-48 , Reference No: YTLB/0067769111/88.

To begin your prize award winning claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Coordinator as follows,

Name: Mr. Steven Chai.
Email: stevechai@syvip.com
Tel: +66943547335

You are to fill the below verification form and send to the Coordinator whose email address is given above for more directives on how your prize money will be remitted in your bank account. Congratulations once more!!

1. Full Name:
2. Country of Origin:
3. Present Address:
4. Date of Birth:
5. Occupation:
6. Telephone no:
7. Fax no:
8. Sex:
9. Marital Status:
10.Lucky winning number, Ticket number and Reference number.

Remember, all prize winnings must be claimed not later than thirty one days(31) time. Any claim not made by this date (within one month) will be be canceled. Also note that 10% of your lottery winning award belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your favor. The said 10% will be remitted back to us after you have received your winning prize in your bank account, this is because your prize award winning funds was insured with your winning identification information, therefore making it difficult to deduct any amount of money from your winning prize award before transferring the funds to your bank account.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and lucky numbers in all correspondences with the coordinator. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Coordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo registered user/member to benefit from the yahoo lottery award program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Once again from all members of our staffs, and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program. We wish you continued good fortunes.

Past Winners in the Yahoo Company Promotion Lottery 2014.

Yours Sincerely
Mr.Paul Smith.
Vice President Yahoo! Lotto Org online Coordinator.

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