419 scam: "peter smith"<maxlowrry@gmail.com> IMPORTANT NOTICE!

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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.
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!

Fraud email example:

From: "peter smith" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mail@facebookgrant.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:36:28 -0800
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE!

FACEBOOK

1 Hacker Way. Menlo Park,

CA 94025.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM FACEBOOK!!!

Facebook the largest Social Networking site valued at over $100 Billion US Dollars with over One Billion Users coming mainly from Mobile devices has decided to reward Users and Companies by its 2016 Lottery Grant Program.

Your facebook account being among the 50 Lucky winners from the ongoing Facebook online promotion 2016 which is for real and legitimate that you have just won the sum of $250,000,00USD.An official mail was sent to your home address on the 16TH Of October 2016 but no response from you.

The Final annual draw was held at our Head Office in Menlo Park,California.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of accounts and your account was picked by automated random computer search from Facebook data base.

The Facebook online promotion program which is a new innovation by Facebook, is aimed at saying a big thank you to all our users for making Facebook their number one means to connect, communicate, relate and hook up with their families and friends over the years.

Kindly note this numbers as it will serve as evidence for your cash claims.Ticket Number (5647600545189), Ref No (2551256002/244) and Serial Number (55643451907).

For claims instruction you are to contact the grant department with the details below.

Email: Mail@facebookgrant.com

Tel:+1617-453-4248

Best Regards,

Max Lowry,

HEAD OF DISBURSEMENT DEPARTMENT.

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