419 scam: "Tammy & Cliff Webster" <info.cu199@gmail.com> (no subject)

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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: "Tammy & Cliff Webster" <info.cu199@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info.tcwdp@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 03:04:28 -0800
Subject:

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Dear Email Owner ,

We are Tammy and Cliff Webster, A married couple from Oneida in Brown
County we recently won $316.3 million Wisconsin Powerball jackpot drawing
held on 10 Feb 2022, we have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of
$450,000,00 dollars to you, being part of my Charitable Organizational
Donation Project to financially support Sixteen (16) lucky people around
the world. Your email was luckily selected via a Google & social media
Sponsored email draws.

We believe that this wonderful opportunity came to us from lord because it
happen when am helpless in life and i cannot keep it to myself all alone,
again your contact was submitted to me by Google Management Team and you
received this email because i have shortlisted you as one of the lucky
individual, If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky
winner and all you have to do is get back to me through this email for more
information.

Read more $316.3 Million Wisconsin Powerball Winners
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VtqEHT72io>

Kings Regards,
Tammy & Cliff Webster.

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