419 scam: Mrs Victoria From People's Choice Lottery

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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.
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.
- bbaryh@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Victoria
Reply-To: <mrsvictoriamcbrown@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:16:52 +0100
Subject: From People's Choice Lottery

World People's Choice Lottery
>From People's Choice Lottery

We are happy to announce to you that you have won a cash award of $6,250,000.00 at the massachusetts Payment Center of the first International Draw of World People's Choice Lottery for the Year 2015.
Your email address was attached to a Ticket Number: #62-16-85-08-17-33 which drew Five out of six winning numbers which consequently won the
2nd category of the cash award of $6,250,000.00 ( Six Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars).

Batch Number: AC/WPCL432/861/0D
Draw Date: October 26th 2015

Your email address was among the (3) email addresses chosen to receive the prize of US$6,250,000.00 each in this section. Also, Immediately after payment have been issued to you, you will be required to support Charity, Youth,Education and Health and Wellness in your community. Also, we expect you to use some of the money to spread Internet knowledge within your locality. We have five clearance offices zoned continental for payment namely Edmonton,Las Vegas,Beijing,London & massachusetts.

For Payment, you are to contact immediately without any further delay Mr. Barry Humphries of the WPCL massachusetts Center for immediate verification and procession for payment.

Mr. Barry Humphries
Email: bbaryh@gmail.com
World People's Choice Lottery
Address: massachusetts International Center

Your clearance Officer will facilitate the process for immediate payment. Contact Him with your details;

Full Name: Address: Tel No. : Nationality: Ticket Number# : 62-16-85-08-17-33 Batch Number: AC/WPCL432/861/0D

Note that the details will be posted on our Site as one of the winners of the End Of Year World People's Choice Lottery

Thank you for your cooperation.

Yours Faithfully

Mrs. Victoria McBrown

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Confidentiality Notice: This communication is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain
information that is privileged,confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended
recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination,distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received
this in error, please notify the sender and immediately delete the message.

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