419 scam: Mr. Liam Finch<efexwec@gmail.com> [[SPAM]]Hi There

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million 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)
- "hundred thousand united states 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)
- ",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: Mr. Liam Finch<efexwec@gmail.com>
Reply-To: liamfinchus3@gmail.com
Date: 02 Apr 2020 00:01:09 -0700
Subject: [[SPAM]]Hi There

COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

Greetings Winner,

If you are the correct owner of this email address? If yes then
be glad
this day as the result of the Coca-Cola lotto online e-mail
address
free-ticket winning draws of January, 2020 held in United States
of
America has just been released and we are glad to announce to you
that
your email address won you the sweepstakes in the first category
and you
are entitled to claim the sum of Three Million Five Hundred
Thousand
United States Dollars(US$3,500,000.00). Your email address was
entered
for the online draw on this ticket No: 546-373-66773 and won on
this
Lucky No: (14)-(8)-(5)-(19)-(28)-(12)-(30).

On how to receive your won prize of US$3.5M. (Three Million Five
Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars Only) to enable Mr. Liam Finch
ascertain
you as the rightful winner and receiver of the US$3.5 million
dollars
US, MAKE SURE you include the below listed information in your
contact
email to him.

Your complete official names, country of origin and country of
residence/work, contact telephone and mobile numbers, address,
amount
won, free ticket and lucky numbers, date of draw. OPTIONAL: -
[Sex, age,
occupation and job title].

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without entering
then know
again that this very draw of the Coca-Cola Lottery Organization
in which
you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket online email
address
draws were thousands of email addresses was collected from almost
all
world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweepstakes and
during
winners selection your email address came out among the first ten
which
won you the lottery in the first winnings category and entitles
you to
claim the US$3,500,000.00 dollars

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Liam Finch
COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION.
Online Winning Notification Department
Tel: +1-416-500-7403

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