419 scam: "Contact Mr. Adams Peter" <youngloane0@gmail.com> Claim your lottery winning

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- ",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!
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.
- adamspeter947@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Contact Mr. Adams Peter" <youngloane0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: adamspeter947@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:32:36 +0800
Subject: Claim your lottery winning

UK/SA NATIONAL LOTTERY COMMISSION
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Address: P.O.BOX <http://p.o.box/> 287, Watford WD 18 9TT, UK.

Attention: Customer
Ref: QATAR22/851OYHI/22.
Batch No. QATAR2022/DFL

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
Promotional Draw held on Wednesday 02/02/2022 in Knightsbridge,
London United Kingdom. Your name/email address attached to Ticket
Number: BA9564 75604545 640, with Serial Number 00063761 drew the
winning numbers 03/25/33/35/48/56 with a bonus Number 01 for National
Lotto under the choice of the lottery in the 2nd category of bi-weekly
02/02/2022.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $1000, 000.00
(One Million USD) in cash credited to file UQATAR22/851OYHI/22. This
is from a total cash prize of $130,000,000.00 Million USD, shared
amongst the first One Hundred-and-thirty (130) lucky winners in this
category Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup Promotional Draw Worldwide.

Please note that youâ€™re lucky winning number falls within our Afro
booklet representative office in Johannesburg South Africa as
indicated in your coupon, because this particular draw was selected to
promote Tourism and FIFA Soccer World Cup during the Qatar FIFA 2022
World Cup to be hosted first in history in Arabian Gulf Region, hence
your winning information must be kept to enable you participate in our
subsequent draws which will see 500 participants traveling on an
all-expense paid trip to Qatar for the Soccer FIFA World Cup 2022.

In view of this, your $1000, 000.00 (One Million USD) would be
released to you by an accredited commercial Bank in South Africa. Our
Paying- agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact our Pay Agentâ€™s office in
Johannesburg.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site
through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,000
companies and personal emails from Flight Centers ,hotels,
Booking.com <http://booking.com/>, Trivago and Star Alliance Airlines.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding Agents in
Johannesburg immediately you read this message for quick and urgent
release of your fund, contact information is as follows
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference
numbers in any.

correspondences with our designated agents.

Congratulations! Once more from all members and staff of this program
that has ensured that you won this competition. Thank you for being
part of our Promotional Lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,

Name Mr: Adams Peter
Email: adamspeter947@gmail.com
Tel: +2760 443 2545
Best Regards

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