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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: "FROM SHELL OIL DEPARTMENT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <spdcclaim@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:49:02 +0530
Subject: THE SHELL NATIONAL LOTTERY



THE SHELL NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT SHELL AVENUE STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM.


THE NATIONAL LOTTERY AFFILIATE TO THE SHELL COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on 5th Feb, 2012 by the SHELL Company in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won 500,000 Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterlings each on the THE SHELL COMPANY PROMOTION However the results were released today, 10th Jan, 2013 and your email was attached to Ticket Number/LUCK NUMBER: 7, 10,13,32,38,42 and WINNING CODE: 01920

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine TOPAZ from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators IAGR . This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to
sensitize the public.

In other to claim your 500,000 Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterlings winning prize, Kindly fill the below form.


VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM:

1. FULL NAMES: ...............................
2. ADDRESS: ...............................
3. SEX: ...............................
4. AGE: ...............................
5. MARITAL STATUS: ...............................
6. OCCUPATION: ...............................
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS: ...............................
8. MOBILE NUMBER: ...............................
9. TICKET NUMBER: ...............................
10. HOW DO YOU FEEL AS A WINNER: ...............................

Please you are advised to complete the form and send it immediately to our Promotion manager through email for prompt collection of your funds payment.

CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER

Director of Operations:Dr.mike williams
Tel: +448719156429.
Email:spdcclaim@hotmail.co.uk

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