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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.sarah Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <srhwilliams87@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:48:57 -0700
Subject: Nofication Winner

PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
THE GUINNESS GAME SPOT PROMOTIONS
LONDON. UNITED KINGDOM SW1V3DW
http://www.guinness.com/en-us/thebeer.html

This is to inform you of the release of email balloting held on the JANUARY MONDAY 10TH,2011 by THE GUINNESS IRISH BOTTLING

COMPANY on it's new year anniversary. For the first time ever THE GUINNESS IRISH BOTTLING COMPANY, have decided to

celebrate it's anniversary by awarding £1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUND STERLING) each to 20 lucky winners who were

selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 30,00000 companies and 5,000,000

individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotion is organized by Guinness Ireland and Guinness

England.

However, the results were released on January 13, 2011 and your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00

each on the anniversary of the THE GUINNESS IRISH BOTTLING COMPANY , and your email was attached to ticket number

GB38844240 and ballot number 00147.

For further information’s contact your fiduciary agent with the following information’s: NAME: AGE:. SEX: ADDRESS: EMAIL:

PHONE: MOBILE NUMBER: OCCUPATION: COMPANY; COUNTRY: Ticket number: GB38844240; Ballot number: 00147

FIDUCIARY AGENT:- Name: Mr. Frank James E-mail: frankjames09@live.com

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.sarah Williams

This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose or use the information contained

within. If you have received it in error please return it to the Guinness® & Co. at www.guinness.com and delete any record

of it from your system.

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