419 scam: "Mr. Steve Anders"<tokyo-2020-olympicsdraw@protonmail.com> Olympics draw

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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:

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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Steve Anders" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <steveanders6@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 05:15:56 -0800
Subject: Olympics draw

Dear Winner,

We are happy to inform you the result of the just concluded THE 2020 OLYMPICS ONLINE LOTTERY PROMOTION final draws held on the 18th of Dec ,2019, your

email address was among the 50 Lucky winners who won $3,200,000, 00. (Three Millions Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) each, this is part of the Social network

participation for Hosting of tokyo-2020 Summer Olympics 2020 in Tokyo Japan.( 24 July 2020 – 9 August 2020).

However the results were released on the 21st Dec, 2019 and your email was attached to ticket number (RIOPPR 009) and ballot number (BN: 070182059/10) The online draws

was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced

automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation

and privacy.
Please you are advised to complete the below form and send it immediately to our Promotion manager through email or call for prompt collection of your fund from any of

the designated bank.

NAME:......................... ..........

AGE:................. SEX:...............

EMAIL:........................ ..........

PHONE:........................ ..........

TICKET NO:.............................

BALLOT NO:............................

(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)

FOR DETAILS:

Name: Mr. Steve Anders

EMAIL: steveanders6@protonmail.com

E-MAIL: tokyo-2020-olympicsdraw@protonmail.com

Website:https://www.olympic.org/tokyo-2020

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

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