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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:
- "enquiry@information4u.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447011150741 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Shell Petroleum Development Company <info@spdc.zzn.com>
Reply-To: enquiry@information4u.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations! Contact Dr. Kenneth Everett Now.

The Desk
of
the International

Award Promotion's Coordinator
Shell Petroleum Development
Company
SPDC London,

United
Kingdom

RE:

OFFICIAL
WINNING NOTIFICATION

Congratulations!!

Dear

Valuable Winner,

We

are pleased to inform you that you have been announced as one the ten
lucky
winners
of

the Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC) International
E-mail Draw Promotion
which

is Organized by the Shell Petroleum Development Company.
Your company or your
personal

email address won you prize
money of Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great
British Pounds
(£650, 000.00 GBP).

SPDC

Lottery collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active online, among the
millions

that are making use of email
addresses worldwide. Ten people are selected yearly to
benefit

from this promotion and your emails address are
one of the Selected Winners.

Stated
below is your Winning Identification
Details:

REFERENCE NUMBER: SPDC-081511
BATCH NUMBER:
SPDC-5HF332
WINNING NUMBER:
SPDC-2098503
LOTTERY
NUMBER:
SPDC-0436344

AWARDS

PRIZE
CLAIM

Winners

shall be paid in accordance with his/her
Settlement Centre. Shell Awards prize money
must

be claimed not later than 15 days from the date of
award Draw Notification. Any Prize not
claimed

within this period will be forfeited.

To

claim your winning prize money, you are advice to fill the Payment
Release Form
below and
send

it immediately to our Financial Director
(Dr. Kenneth Everett) through email for prompt
collection

of your fund from the designated. and send
your winning identification numbers to him:

FILL
THE PAYMENT RELEASE FORM:

Full

Name:...........................................
Address:.............................................
Age:...................................................
Sex:.....................................................
Nationality:...........................................
Fax:....................................................
Mobile
Telephone:.................................
E-mail
address:.....................................
Marital

Status:.......................................
Occupation:...........................................

Company
name:.....................................
Amount
Won:..........................................

A scan copy of your ID card or Driving License:.....

Fill

the Payment Release Form at once and send it to the
Financial Direct (Dr. Kenneth Everett)

through

the below contact email address:

Financial

Director: (Dr. Kenneth Everett)
Telephone
Numbers: +447011150741
Contact E-mail:
enquiry@information4u.com

Caution!! You
are to keep all your winning information away from the public especially

your
Reference

Number, Batch Number and Winning Number. This
is important as to avoid double claim
of

your winning money by another person. Take note of this (It's
Important)

Accept

our hearty congratulations once again !!

Yours
Faithfully,
Prof. Mrs. Amelia G. Fleta.
(Awards Coordinator)
Shell Awards
Centre

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