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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "shell shell" <shellaward.uk2@g.pl>
Reply-To: shellclaims02@walla.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:08:05 +0100
Subject: Shell Petroleum Development of England Award Promotion


[image: Shell logo]Shell Petroleum Development of England
======================================================================================Shell Centre, London, SE1 7NA - United Kingdom Tel: +447 031 969 456
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*BATCH REF: JULY/008/YY

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of two Hundred
Thousand Great Britain Pounds(200,000.00 **GB Pounds**) for the 2008
International E-mail Draw which is Organized by Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC).

SPDC collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online,
among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla,*rediffmail,*
Gmail<http://gmail.google.com/>,
Russian Mail and Hotmail <http://www.hotmail.com/> and few from other e-mail
providers. Six people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and
you are one of the Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Shell
Award must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification.
Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below is your identification number:

REFERENCE NUMBER: SPDC-081511

This numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to
contact our fiduciary agent in London [Dr. Bob Williams]**
<http://us.f351.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=shellclaims2008@live.com>**with
the details below and send your winning identification numbers to him;

E-Mail: shellclaims02@walla.com<http://us.f351.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=shellclaims2008@live.com>
*<http://us.f351.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?DMid76_8210519_346_421_25_0_18480_-1_0&YYX031&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&inc 0&order wn&sortÚte&pos* <http://us.f351.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=shellclaims1@live.com>
Tel: +447031962686

**He shall immediately commence the process that will facilitate the release
of your fund to you.

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,
Dr. (Mrs.) Lynda Johnson
[Publicity Secretary]*

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