419 scam: "From British Online Lottery Department" <warehouse@Lonestarsafety.com> UK Lottery Online Email Winning Notification Department

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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447092873325 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
- +447937448710
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.
- agentwbrown@consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "From British Online Lottery Department" <warehouse@Lonestarsafety.com>
Reply-To: agentwbrown@consultant.com
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:15:10 +0200
Subject: UK Lottery Online Email Winning Notification Department

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY PO BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM. THE CAME=
LOT GROUP TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

Are you the correct owner of this email address? If yes then be glad this d=
ay as the result of the UK National Online Lotto and e-mail address free-ti=
cket draws of The 2017 Promotion Award has just been released and we are gl=
ad to announce to you that your email address came out in the first categor=
y and entitles you to claim the sum of $2, 500 000.00 {Two Million Five Hun=
dred Thousand Dollars Only, From the 2017 UK National ONLINE Lottery Promot=
ion.
Your email address was entered for the online draw on this free ticket numb=
er: 694 75600545721 and won on this Lucky number: 07-13-20-27-33-36/48. Ple=
ase remember you did not enter or buy the ticket to earn you this Prize. It=
is a Promotional Program to encourage the use of Microsoft and Internet Pr=
ograms, kindly contact Mr. William Brown urgently with all your winning inf=
ormation to Assist You with The Claim

MR WILLIAM BROWN
William Consulting Services
Certified Associate of Goldratt Institute
28 TAN FIELD ROAD CORYDON London, England
Tel: +44 793 744 8710
FAX: +44 709 2873 325
E-Mail: agentwbrown@consultant.com

MAKE SURE you include the below listed information in your contact mail to =
him.

Your complete official Names, Country of origin and country of residence/wo=
rk, Contact Telephone and Mobile Numbers, Address, Amount won{$2,5.000.000.=
00 }, free ticket number (07-13-20-27-33-36/48),lucky number (694 756005457=
21), Sex, Age, Occupation and Job Title.
Are you thinking of how you won the $2, 5 000.000.00 without entering or pu=
rchasing the lottery ticket?. Know now that this very draw of the UK Lotter=
y Organization in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket, onl=
ine and email address draws where thousands of email addresses was collecte=
d from almost all world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweepst=
akes and during winners selection your email address came out among the fir=
st ten which won you the lottery in the first winnings category and entitle=
s you to claim the sum of $2,5 000.000.00 {Two Million Five Hundred Thousan=
d Dollars Only.

Please NOTE: For Security Reasons you are advised to keep your winning info=
rmation Secret and Confidential till your claim is processed and your money=
Remitted to you in what ever manner you Deem fit to claim your prize. This=
is Part of Our Precautionary Measure to avoid Double claim and unwanted ab=
use of this Program by some unscrupulous elements please be warned

Regards
Mr. Matthew Mansfield
UK Lottery Online Email Winning Notification Department

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