419 scam: "Prestige National"<prestige_donotreply@arubacloud.com> Congratulations

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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:

The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",500,000" (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)
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: "Prestige National" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:33:46 -0000
Subject: Congratulations

ONLINE BALLOT SYSTEM

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws of Prestige Annual National draw. The online Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. These email addresses was selected randomly from social media, linkedin, guestbooks and business databases worldwide.

For this type of draw, tickets were not sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data:

WINNING NUMBER: 1975198300
Batch Number: 53/234/0689
Ticket Number: 3648/12

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00 USD (Two Million Five Hundred US Dollars ONLY) each from the total pay out. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to go to our website and register your claim. The website to go to is: www.prestigenationallottery.com

Please kindly enter your winning number once you reach our website and complete the form as instructed. One of our licensed and accredited claims agent will contact you to verify your information and advice you on how to complete the claim of your winnings. The website again is: www.prestigenationallottery.com

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.

Remember to go to our website and enter your winning number to claim your prize. You are to keep all information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). We will advice that you do not inform anyone about this until you have successfully claimed your price.

Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations once again!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Isaac Jones.

NB: This is only a notification only email and cannot receive any replies. Any message sent to this box will be returned back. In order to claim your winnings, kindly follow the instructions above.

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