419 scam: "MIKE"<admintb@kpru.ac.th> You are lucky Friend

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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")
- "million united state dollars" (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)
- "united state dollar" (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.
- infoluckywinners656@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MIKE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <franmik655@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 22:26:10 -0000
Subject: You are lucky Friend

Attn

Nice meeting you ... I am Frank Mike from online Google / Facebook social Network

Incorp. and i was authorized to send you a request message by the

Facebook C.E.O,'Mark Zuckerberg"because i have good news to pass to

you from our office??

Well,am pleased to inform you about the online Google Facebook promo that was

organized by C.E.O of Facebook and all Facebook officials

The result concluded annual Final draws held on the (2 ,july , 2017)

by Facebook group in cash Promotion to encourage the usage of online Google Facebook

world wide.

Your Name was selected in the list of 20 Lucky winners who won (One

million united state dollars) each on the online Google Facebook group promotion

Award

The online draws was Conducted by a random selection of emails and

name,and your Facebook account were picked By an Advanced automated

random computer searcher from the Facebook.

I am your directive officer,.may we proceed on the claims?

I am your claim agent and i am here to instruct you on how you are

going to claim your winnings that is if you are interested as you have

the option to declined

You are required to get back to me with this required information

below to enable us reconfirms your identities :

To make things easy provide the info about you below so I will forward

to Mark Zuckerberg on your behalf for the re-confirmation of identity

and processing of your winning certificate:

Well,you are to provide this information:

Full name..............

Full Home Address..........

Country........

State..........

City...........

Full date of birth....

Marital Status........

Sex.....

Copy of ID card.....

Text Number........

Income ................

TROUBLE. BE HONEST WITH US , WE DON'T LIKE GAME AND GIVE US THE RIGHT

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU,SO THAT WE WILL NOT GIVE YOUR MONEY TO WRONG

PERSON

For security reasons, we advise all winners to keep this information

confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your

prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid

double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some

participants.

Best regard

Frank Mike

infoluckywinners656@gmail.com

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