419 scam: "International lottery totalizer inc"<do-not-reply@itsi.org> CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!!!

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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:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",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)
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 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.
- richardandy589@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "International lottery totalizer inc" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidkanaugh@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:22:36 -0500
Subject: CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!!!

International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc. 2310 Cousteau Court Vista, CA 92081 USA This is to inform you that you won a prize money of Five Million,five hundred thousand United states [$5,500,000,00] for the 2014 International E-mail Draw Awards, organized by International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc(ITSI). ITSI collects all the email addresses of people who are active on the Internet , between the millions of people that subscribed to Yahoo,Hotmail, AOL, Walla, Gmail, mail.Cz, American Mail, Mail Russian,Indian Mail, Arabic Mail, Italian mails, and only few from other e-mailproviders. Six people are selected each year take advantage of this offer and you are one of the selected winners. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM The winners will be paid in accordance with the Settlement Center.ITSI awards must be claimed no later than 15 days from the date of notification Draw. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Listed below is your identification number: REFERENCE NUMBER: ITSI-081511 These figures, which fall within the America Location file [ALF], you are asked to contact our fiduciary agent in the United States[Mr Richard Andy Agent Name:Richard Andy E-Mail: Richardandy589@yahoo.com Lottery winners form of payment requests. FullName ................................................. Date of Birth .................................. ADDRESS ................................................. . SEX ......................... AGE .................................. State ............. ............................... Occupation ........................................... TELEPHONE .......................................... EMAIL ......................... ........................ The winner of reference / batch No ........................... Approved This begin a process that will allow the release of funds to you. Congratulations!!! Best Regards, David Kanaugh (International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc

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