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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: "Google Award Corporations" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.nelson-cole@sys-w.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:14:13 -0800
Subject: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.

 
                            NEW YEAR GOOGLE AWARD LOTTERY PROMOTION ANNIVERSAY.
 
Stamford New Road,
Altrincham Cheshire,
WA14 1EP
London,
United Kingdom.
GOOGLE AWARDS.
 
We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services. Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Google search engine. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta test which your email address won 750, 000, 00 GBP (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds).
 
We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report test conducted for all online winners. You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager Agency with the following details and your option of Remittance/Mode of Collection to Dr. Nelson Cole immediately to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
 
 
CLAIMS REQUIREMENTS:
1. Full names:
2. Residential address:
3. Phone number:
4. Fax number:
5. Occupation:
6. Sex:
7. Age:
8. Nationality:
9. Present Country:
10.Next of kin name/address:
11.How Do you Feel As winner:
 
Mode of Price Remittance/Mode of Collection.
 
(1) Through Bank Wire Transfer into your private bank account.
 
(2)Through A Courier Delivery Of Your Certified Winning Cheque Name And Other.
Winning Documents Safely To You.
 
CONTACT:
 
FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER AGENT.
DR. NELSON COLE.
GOOGLE AWARD SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
PHONE: +4470-240-787-04
PHONE: +4470-359-653-16
FAX: +44 704 579 5477
E-mail: dr.nelsoncole@sys-w.com
E-mail: dr.nelson_cole@sys-w.com
E-mail: dr.nelson-cole@sys-w.com
 
 
 
The Google Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.
 
 
 
Once Again On behalf Of All Our Staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!
 
 
Yours Sincerely,
Sindel Williams,
GOOGLE PRO.ZONAL COORDINATOR.
©2010 Google Incorporations
 
 
                            NEW YEAR GOOGLE AWARD LOTTERY ANNIVERSARY NOTIFICATION.
 
 
 

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