419 scam: "Brazil Olympic Promo Lottery"<mainbox1@live.com> You have been chosen to go to Brazil with £820,000!

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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:
- "claimspayout@bolp2016.com" (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.
- +447509757996

Fraud email example:

From: "Brazil Olympic Promo Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <brazilpromo3@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 04:25:01 +0200
Subject: You have been chosen to go to Brazil with £820,000! PPKWIDJQUC

ATTENTION: WINNER 00345/2015
REF: BOLP/UK-BR/0080/INT

The Tourism Department of Brazil its quest to promote special tourism and economic potentials of our country has chosen
your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number: BOLP/8847 7092545 13, with Serial Number 8907765432 as one of the
winners of our Special Global Brazil Tourism Megamillions Promotional Lottery Draws. By being chosen, you have won the
following prizes;

1. GBP820,000 (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds Sterling) cash prize.
2. And an all expense trip to Brazil to watch the Rio Carnival and the Olympics with your partner in 2016.

This Special Global Brazil Tourism Megamillions Promotional Lottery Draws sponsored by the National Lottery of Brazil held
on Wednesday 26th August 2015 by a random draw through the Brazil Mega Sena Megamillions lottery global online jackpot
selection machines saw your email drawing winning numbers 12 13 24 29 32 and 41.

Your winning is part of cash prizes of over GBP17M donated by Coca Cola to the games Local Organizing Committee as the
sponsors of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, to the National Lottery Board of Brazil and shared amongst over 80 lucky winners
in different categories worldwide.

All participant’s emails were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer draws system and extracted from
over 10,000,00 companies and personal e-mails. To file for the claim of your winnings, please contact our ‘pay-out /claims
agency’ in the United Kingdom immediately after you must have read this message by sending a response/claims email to
the office.

Our British bureau’s ‘Pay out Officer’ will immediately process the release of your GBP820,000 (Eight Hundred and Twenty
Thousand Pounds Sterling) prize and travel tickets to the Olympic Games in 2016.

The pay-out agent’s contact information is as follows: email: claimspayout@bolp2016.com (all responses/inquiries must be
directed to this email) or by phone on +447509757996. Your winnings would be released to you by our program’s accredited
agency.

Congratulations!

Ms. Emma Lilly Cromwell
Special Global Brazil Tourism Megamillions
Promotional Lottery Draws

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