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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: AWARD CENTRE <fabiana.chagas@gomesdemattos.com.br>
Reply-To: Mr Patrick Lee <agentpatricklee1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 06:18:10 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!





Dear Email User,

This is to immediately inform you that your email address with micros ID:IDJT-36426-EHI-676GI-8ED has won you £460,000.00 and a brand new 2009 Range Rover from the Google yearly Award.


Google hereby announces you as one of the 6 lucky winners in the second category of the ongoing 20 Years promotion Award Held on 30th March 2013.


Google is currently the world leading search engine worldwide,and is vigorously making more effort to make sure the reputation of the company stands out to be the best among the rest, with the optimize help of our customers worldwide.


GOOGLE is the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet search remains the most widely used program.


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

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our London representative office in United Kingdom.


Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company in UK and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you provide us with the required in formations below so that your winning Payment will be issued to you or remitted to your account,as this is part of our security protocol,to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.


TO BEGIN YOUR CLAIM FILL THE INFORMATION'S BELOW FOR VERIFICATIONS AND KINDLY FORWARD YOUR DETAILS BELOW TO THE AGENT IN CHARGE OF OUR EUROPEAN ZONAL OFFICE SO THAT HE WILL ADVICE YOU ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE...ON Email:agentpatricklee1@gmail.com

GOOGLE CORPORATION
Shaftesbury Theatre 210
Shaftesbury Avenue
WC2H 8DP London,
United Kingdom

1. FULL NAMES

2. NATIONALITY/COUNTRY

3. PRESENT ADDRESS

4. DATE OF BIRTH/AGE

5. OCCUPATION

6. TELEPHONE NUMBER

7. FAX NUMBER

8. MARITAL STATUS

9. SEX

10.ANNUAL INCOME

11.ZIP CODE

12.EMAIL:

13.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS A WINNER,HAVE YOU WON ANY ONLINE AWARD BEFORE AND WHAT WILL YOU USE THIS MONEY TO DO TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR COMMUNITY,SOCIETY AND NATION?

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than one month from date of notification. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTY'S DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your promo belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANIES). Because they are the companies that sponsored this program.


Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Coordinator as soon as possible.Google is a free service that does not require you to be a Google! Registered user.



Note that this is not lottery you have won because you did not buy any ticket for it,its just a way of showing appreciation to our customers all over the globe and encouraging them to use Google more.



All 6 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,00 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually,consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of £460,000.00(Four Hundred and Sixty Thousand Great British Pounds)


CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.


Regards,
GOOGLE CORPORATION

Email:agentpatricklee1@gmail.com



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