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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: "ROYAL DUTCH SHELL =?iso-8859-1?b?rg==?=" <shellnetherland@live.hk>
Reply-To: shellafricazone@live.hk
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 06:58:26 -0500
Subject: YOU HAVE WON $5,000,000.00 USD LOTTERY PRIZE!



Royal Dutch Shell
International Lottery Promotion
Carel van Bylandtlaan 16,2596 HR The Hague,The Netherlands.

Dear:Winner:

This is to notify you that you are one of the final lucky winners selected
worldwide to receive sum of ($5,000,000.00 USD) in the Shell International
Lottery held on 21st of May 2011.

Royal Dutch Shell a Multi-Million company was establish not only for profit
oriented,but with the objectives of Human and universal development.

The Lottery Draw was based on random selection exercises of database of
E-mail addresses on internet websites worldwide and the Globe divided into
Zones.No tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different
ticket numbers for representation,and your Email ID credited to
Ticket No:(SHL91056A).

You are hereby informed that yours falls to "AFRICAN ZONE" hence you are to
be paid by AFRICAN ZONAL PAYMENT CENTRE,as approved by we "ROYAL DUTCH SHELL"
here in NETHERLANDS.

For claims,you are to Directly contact our assigned Finance Manager in our
African Zonal Centre via below email,including the below Verification form.
===============================
FINANCE MANAGER:
NAME: MR. CHRIS DUKE
PHONE: +234-8186680891
E-mail: shellafricazone@live.hk
===============================

1.FULL NAMES:__________
2.ADDRESS:_____________
3.NATIONALITY:__________
4.SEX:________________
5.AGE:___________________
6.MARITAL STATUS:__________
7.OCCUPATION:______________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_________
9.NEXT OF KIN:__________
10.YOUR TICKET/WINNING NO:______

Be advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end
of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.

On behalf of the Lottery Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations.

Susan Anderson (Mrs)
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.

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