419 scam: Facebook Corp Corporate Office <isna@cbn.net.id> Re: Your Email Have won ( $7,700,000.00 USD)

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

Fraud email example:

From: Facebook Corp Corporate Office <isna@cbn.net.id>
Reply-To: facebookcorpcorporateoffice@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:35:19 +0700
Subject: Re: Your Email Have won ( $7,700,000.00 USD)

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Facebook Corp Corporate Office
Address: Menlo Park, California, USA.

From Desk of Chris Hughes
[Facebook co-Founder]

Congratulation from Facebook,

Facebook the largest Social Networking site valued more than $100
Billion Dollars and also expecting its One Billion Users to come
mainly from Mobile devices than desktop Users by 2020, Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg has decided to boost Users and Companies a
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY by Lottery Program and Initial Public Offer said
in a press release.

So We are pleased to inform you that you have won the sum of
$7,700,000.00 usd in cash Promotion to encourage the usage of Facebook
users worldwide, your Name and Email was among the 50 Lucky winners
who won $7,700,000:00 USD.The online draw was Conducted by a random
selection of email you were picked by an Advanced automated random
computer search from the Facebook. In other to claim your fund, you
are required to contact our dispatch dept via email

Contact Person:Justiniano Simpelo Mrs.(Facebook Co-coordinator)
Email: facebookcorpcorporateoffice@gmail.com

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote
your Ticket, Reference FB-0281/2017 in all correspondences.
Furthermore, if there is any change in email address please contacts
us on time.

In case if found this message in spam folder, it could be due to your
Internet Service Provider, ISP. So kindly move to your inbox before
replying.

Congratulation Once again From Facebook.

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