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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: Mrs nancy Martins <mrsnancy-----09992@att.net>
Reply-To: revfrpaulwilson001@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:24:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Batch: 074/05/ZY369 WINNING


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Shell
Lottery Promo(LOTTO LORE) 
Shell Petroleum
Development
Company
(Customer Services)


 
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Carel van Bylandtlaan 16

London
UK
Ref:
Ng/9420X2/68
Batch:











074/05/ZY369
WINNING
Serial
number: 5368/02
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
NOTIFICATION OF
YOUR WINNING

We happily announce to you the
result (#951) of the
E-mail
address ballot lottery draw of
the Shell
Lottery Promo (lotto lore),

Online Shell program
held on
January 25, 2011. Been the Largest promo award over the Year. Your
e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545












188 with Serial number 5368/02

drew the lucky
numbers 7 9 17 23 27
32 Bonus
22, which subsequently won you the lottery JACKPOT category
in cash credit file. You have therefore been
approved
to claim a total sum of $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in
cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.











This is from a total
cash prize of $7,800,000.00 shared amongst four (10) lucky winners in
this
category.

All participants for the
online
version were selected randomly from
World Wide
Web sites
through an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from
different
World Wide Web(www)sites, from over 100,000 unions, associations, and
corporate
bodies that are listed online.
Note that 10% of your claim
will go for
the tsunami victims. Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within
our African booklet, representative region in Africa as indicated in
your play
coupon. In view of this, your $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars) would
be released to you by any of our payment offices. Our agent will
immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as
you
contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims 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.
 
To file for your claim. please
contact
Your lottery fiduciary agent.
Name: Rev Fr Paul Wilson (Shell
Fund
Mgt)
Email:
revfrpaulwilson001@gmail.com


           














 
Email the below
form to your agent for him to direct you and commence the processing of
your
winning prize and send back to him the below form after filling
it.
 
NAME..............................














WINNING
E-MAIL ...................

ADDRESS...........................













FULL
ADDRESS:.....................
YOUR RESIDENT
TOWN
................
SEX:..............................














DATE OF
BIRTH.....................

OCCUPATION........................













AMOUNT
WON........................

TEL...............................

MOBILE............................













COUNTRY...........................













BATCH
NUMBER:.....................
WINNING
NUMBER:...........

REF
NUMBER..................

SCANNED IDENTITY
CARD...................(Mandatory)
 
Note: All
claims must be made before the 20th of March, 2011.

Copyright











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2011 Shell Petroleum Development
Company!

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