419 scam: "Mrs. Jennifer Mary"<pinnacle@fareastddb.com> BMW LOTTERY DEPARTMENT

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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "the bmw automobile company" (no such lottery exists)
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",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)
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.
- phillips.jack84@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Jennifer Mary" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <phillips.jack84@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:49:50 -0500
Subject: BMW LOTTERY DEPARTMENT

THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.
Reference Number: BMW: 2551256003/23.
Secret pin code: x7pwyz2005.

Finally today, the result of winners of the BMW awareness promotional.

Lottery E-mail programs helth, September 1 2015 was announced. Your personal e-mail address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which consequently won in the 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £450,000.00 (Four hundred and Fifty thousand US Dollars).

Selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

No ticket was sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage our prominent BMW automobile users all over the world. This is to encourage users to continue the use of our wide range of luxurious automobiles and non users to try and use our products.

The BMW awareness lottery is approved and Licensed by the International Association of Lotteries (IAL). And ensure to keep your winning information from the public until your winning award is finally credited....

To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduciary claims department for more information as regards procedures to claim your prize.

Name: Phillips Jack
Email: phillips.jack84@yahoo.com

Contact him by please providing him with your secret pin code Number
BMW: 2551256003/23.
You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible:

1. Name in full. 2. Address.
3. Nationality. 4. Age.
5. Occupation. 6. Phone/Fax.
7. Present Country. 8. Email address.

Mrs. Jennifer Mary
THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS
BMW LOTTERY DEPARTMENT
UNITED STATES .

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