419 scam: "Asia Representative Office"<winner@one.lt> [info] Winning Notification

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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:
- "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
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.
- suria.abid1122@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Asia Representative Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <suria.abid1122@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:27:44 -0800
Subject: [info] Winning Notification

Concorso N° 204
Del 26 Dec 2016
WINNING NOTIFICATION;

We happily announce to you the draw of SUPERENALOTTO Lottery International programs held in U.K on the 22nd February 2017. Your "email address" was attached to ticket number; B9665 75604546 199 Serial Number 97560, This batch draws the lucky winning numbers as follows [23] [27] [38] [59] [62] [70] which consequently won the lottery in the e-version second category.

All participants "e-mail address" were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine Hundred Thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our International Promotions Program which is conducted at every year.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $820,000.00 (Eight HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash credited to file MSW-L/200-26937.

This is from a total cash prize of $25,000,000.00 shared among the (25) Twenty-Five lucky winners in this second category.

Furthermore your details (e-mail address) falls within our Asian Representative Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as indicated in our play coupon and your prize sum of $820,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) would be released to you from Malaysia.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Simply contact our Fiduciary Claim Agent in Malaysia where your own Payment is zoned. He will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning price money. His contact details are shown below:

Ms. Suria Abid
Asia Representative Office
Jalan SK 7/12 43300 SK,
Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
TEL: +(60) 149736191
E-mail: suria.abid1122@gmail.com

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact your claim agent immediately with the below information's;

NAME:
ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
AGE:
SEX:
PHONE/MOBILE:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
FILE NO: MSW-L/200-26937

Our special thanks and gratitude to our sponsors Bill Gates and Associates. We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your cash prize is processed and your money remitted to you.

Endeavour to contact the claims agent with the required information's immediately.

Congratulations!

Yours in service,
Online Coordinator

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