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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: SHELL LOTTERY AWARD 2014 <shellaward897@barid.com>
Reply-To: <mrslynn_derek64@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:44:22 +0100
Subject: ((((Congratulations! YOUR EMAIL won SHELL lottery 2014))

SHELL LOTTERY AWARD PROMO
================================================================================================================
PO Box 1100 Chesterfield S44 5YQ,
------------------------------------------------------
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

BATCH REF: JANUARY/2014/YY

This is to inform you that you won a prize money of five hundred
thousand
Great British Pound [GBP 500,000,00] for the 2014 International E-mail
Draw Awards, organized by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

SPDC collects all the email addresses of people who are active on the
Internet , between the millions of people that subscribed to Yahoo,
Hotmail, AOL, Walla, Gmail, mail.Cz, American Mail, Mail Russian,
Indian
Mail, Arabic Mail, Italian mails, and only few from other e-mail
providers. Six people are selected each year take advantage of this
offer
and you are one of the selected winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

The winners will be paid in accordance with the Settlement Center.
Shell
awards must be claimed no later than 15 days from the date of
notification
Draw. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.


Listed below is your identification number:

REFERENCE NUMBER: SPDC-081511

These figures, which fall within the America Location file [ALF], you
are
asked to contact our fiduciary agent in England [Mrs Lynn Derek] on the
details below and send your winning numbers to her;

Agent Name:Mrs Lynn Derek
E-Mail: mrslynn_derek64@hotmail.com
Tel: +447035910957


Lottery winners form of payment requests.
FullName .................................................
Date of Birth ..................................
ADDRESS ................................................. .
SEX .........................
AGE ..................................
State ............. ...............................
Occupation ...........................................
TELEPHONE ..........................................
EMAIL ......................... ........................

The winner of reference / batch No ........................... Approved
For CHKO TBU.

They begin a process that will allow the release of funds to you.

ATTENTION: Your reply and the information should be send to MRS LYNN
DEREK
EMAIL. (mrslynn_derek64@hotmail.com)


Congratulations! again.AND Happy New Year!!

Best Regards,
Dr. (Mrs.) Olivia Gary
(SHELL LOTTERY PROMO ORGANIZER 2014)

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