419 scam: "RELIEFE PROJECT"<admin@magicwinmail.com> RELIEFE PROJECT .

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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: "RELIEFE PROJECT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wangtonia4@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 11:46:43 +0800
Subject: RELIEFE PROJECT .

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce to you the result of the World Health Organization international live e-mail grant held this August 2020, Your e-mail was attached to ticket number (610WIN) .On behalf of the entire Convid 19 relief palliative team, we wish to acknowledge all the sponsors, partners ,especially all Telecom companies for providing the Mobile & e-mail Directories for the success of this Relief Programme. Every participant was selected randomly from the computer ballot system.

Therefore the World Health Organization in collaboration with it's Parent Organization the United Nations Economic and Social Council looked at the coronavirus pandemic damage on the world economy and decided to help individuals and companies to bounce back to their respective businesses. While basking in the euphoria of this achievement, we wish to seize this opportunity to acquaint you with guidelines that must be followed in order to complete this claim. On our part, we have a mandate to see you through, We will work assiduously to realize this mandate as we respect your views, opinions and most importantly to protect your privacy.

Please, kindly provide us with the following information for verification of your prize and production of your prize certificate;

Full name.......................... ..............
Full address....................... ...................
Age........................... .....................
Sex........................... .....................
Nationality.............. ........................
Home Telephone #...........................
Mobile Telephone #..........................
Occupation................. .....................

We will immediately start the process to facilitate your funds release as soon as you send the required details, For security reasons. you are advised to keep your Winning information confidential until your grant is processed and remitted to you. Any form of double claim Will lead to disqualification.

Once again congratulations from members and staff of world Health organization.

Yours Sincerely
WHO (c).

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