419 scam: "LOTTO ITALIAN"<superenalottoitalian80@gmail.com> Kindly Call for Confirmation

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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.
- superenalotto5@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTO ITALIAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <superenalotto5@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 21:29:06 +0200
Subject: Kindly Call for Confirmation

Kindly Call for Confirmation

Super Ena-Lotto Italian.
(Promotional Division)
Via A. Di Tocqueville n. 13
IT-20154 Milano,Italy.

Dear Email owner,

The management team here at The Super Ena-Lotto Italian (Promo Sweepstakes Division) IT Company write to congratulate and explain to you how your email address which we extracted from the Internet through an email extractor software and attached to our E-Ticket Number 0011-41285224(05-14) has won you the sum of €1,000.000.00 (One Million Euro Only) in our re-organized promotional email Sweepstakes program of Saturday the 22nd day of July, 2017. See below your complete winning details in other to apply for the winning funds.

Winning Details:-
Payment Batch Number: IT05/21/5132
E-Ticket Number: 0011-41285224(05-14)
Payment (File) Reference: BLPD-852-05/2017.

All E-mail Addresses that emerge Winner in this program were randomly selected without the knowledge of each email owner through a computer ballot system drawn from over 51,000 companies and individual email addresses from parts of Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Africa, North and South America and your E-mail Address is among the few recipients that emerge winners hence this email message to you. In other to collect the winning funds on time, we strongly advice you write our payment officer an email message with the above winning details through the contact information below;

Super Ena-Lotto Italian.
Mr. Mario Franco.
(Payment Officer),
Tel: +393-331-877-387
Email:superenalotto5@gmail.com

© 2017 The license for our lottery is issued by
the Gaming Authority under reference 00,011,885 dated 15/04/13.

Disclaimer:
The information contained in this email is confidential. If the reader is not the intended recipient or you are the intended recipient but do not wish to claim your funds,you must notify the sender immediately by return email and then delete all copies of this email. You must not copy, distribute, print or otherwise use the information. Email may be stored by the Company to support operational activities. All information will be held in accordance with the Company’s Privacy Policy.

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