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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 GMAIL CORPORATION." <googleindxcitylink@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:49:28 -0600
Subject: Dear Winner


Dear Winner

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money of (£500,000.00
GBP) by Google /Rediffmail Lottery in conjunction with the GOOGLE GMAIL
CORPORATION. we collects all the email addresses of the people that are active
online, Among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and various
Microsoft window users, we only select five people every year as our winners, we
are congratulating you for being one of the people selected. All participants
were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred
thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program
which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by Google Corporation and a conglomerate
of rediffmail and some multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base

How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager
1. Full name........ ......
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Occupation............
8. State:.................
9. Country..........

(Contact Director Lottery Department})
Name: Mr Lee Ben
E-mail: googleindxcitylink@hotmail.com
Director Lottery Department
The Google Rediffmail Corporation

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