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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: "David Morris" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <officemail136@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:14:32 -0700
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner;;;;

Google Security Department®
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.
 
 
Dear Lucky Winner.
 
We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being one of our lucky winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active use of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services. Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to this company. Google is now the world leading search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, an online e-mail balloting was carried out on the  1st of  February 2013, without your knowledge and was officially released recently.
 
 
We wish to formally announce to you that your email address was attached to a lump sum of £750,000.00 {Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} only.
 
A winning Cheque will be issued in your name by the Google Promotion Award Team, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning Cheque.
 
Your Award Winning Details.
Code Number: GUK/3554749405GK
Ticket No: GUK/1008272745GK
Winning Number: GUK/99334353734GK
 
Information's required from you are part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award claims Manager (McCarthy Robert) neatly filling the payment release form below.
 
PAYMENT RELEASE FORM.
*First Name       
*Last Name       
*Residential Address       
*Telephone/ Mobile       
*Nationality/Country       
*Age       
*Sex       
*Occupation/Position       
*Amount Won       
*Alternate Email       
*Have you ever been an Online Winner?               
 
You are advised to contact your Foreign Claims Manager with his private email details below to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
 
**************************************************
GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS MANAGER.
David Morris
Google Security Department (United Kingdom)
E-mail: officemail136@yahoo.co.jp
************************************************
 
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information’s confidential till your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
 
Note: You can fill your payment release form by printing and manually filling or you can fill directly on mail, or provide the details on Microsoft Word.
 
Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this email address.
 
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
 
Michael Smith,
 
Regional Coordinator,
Google United Kingdom.
©2013 Google Corporation.
 
 

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