419 scam: aby8122193@fgs.ju.edu.jo FP36284/20

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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 british pounds" (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)
- ",000,000" (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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: freeuklottopromo@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:01:00 -0800
Subject: FP36284/20

Free Lottery UK

Online Lottery Promo Dept.

Customer Service, The Exchange

Station Parade,Harrogate,HG1 1TS

Congratulations!!!

We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being one of our selected email winners in this year's email promo award, your email address has won you £8,000,000.00 due to the activeness of your email address.The online draws was conducted by a random selection of active email addresses from an exclusive list of emails of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 100,000,000.00 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

Your Email address was attached to a ticket Number: FP36284/20 and has won you £8,000,000.00. (Eight Million British Pounds) in the first draw category and your prize will be released to you by any of our sub regional designated payment offices. This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

Please be informed that this lottery is the third of its kind, for verification and confirmation you are to provide us with the details below.

Names:

Telephone/Fax number:

Nationality:

Age:

Occupation:

Free Lottery is just what it says; a lottery that costs nothing to play but that could see you winning up to £1,000,000.00 to £100,000,000.00. Kindly get back with details above to proceed with your claims

Contact claims department at (claims@freelottoukpromo.com) with information's above.

Yours Faithfully,

Stork Jarred Christopher

Online Coordinator, Free Lottery Promo.

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