419 scam: don goe <dg5617479@gmail.com> hello

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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!
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.
- irectorwinningfund@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: don goe <dg5617479@gmail.com>
Reply-To: directorwinningfund@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:10:33 +0100
Subject: hello

MOLOTTERY INTERNATIONAL DEPARMENT.
SUBJECT: RE PRICE AWARD NOTIFICATIONS, ONLINEMOLOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
SECTION.
ATTENTION, As part of the promotional draws, participants were selected
using the systemcomputer voting composed of 100.5 million email
addressese-mails of individuals and companies from all over the world as
part of the electronic programpromotions designed to encourage Internet
users around the world.
Please note that you / your email address have qualifiedfor a raffle as a
result of your various visits to various websites on the Internet.
You / your company address attached to number 230-365-3071, with serial
number 710-43, attracted lucky numbers 8, 5, 6, 24, 19.34 and Bonus No. 51,
and therefore you won in the second category ONLINEFORTUNE LOTTO DRAW.
Therefore, you have been approved for a payment of $ 5.8 billionUSD, which
is the winning amount for the winners of the second category. Its fromtotal
prize pool of $ 38,450,000.00, whichshared between international winners in
the second category.
Congratulations! With respect, Chris.
Contact Email irectorwinningfund@gmail.com

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