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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 AWARD <drnaveed@ibinsinahospital.ae>
Reply-To: googawardpromo@googlemail.com
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:29:44 +0100
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Your_email_id_has_won_you_=28500=2C000=2E00_=C2=A3GBP=29?=


*Google Promotion Award Department®44 Oakleugh RoadSouth London N11
INPUnited Kingdom.*

*2015 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY.Dear *
*E-mail User,*












*Your e-mail ID has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred
thousand Great Britain Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion Award. We
wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our
winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the
active users 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 the Google search engine. Google is now the biggest search
engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most
widely used search engine.The Google Promotion Award Team collects the
E-mail ID of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to
GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL,
ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND, FACEBOOK and all the social networks online, among the
billions users that subscribe to internet in which your email ID did emerge
as one of the lucky winners that won £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand
Great Britain Pounds Sterling} through electronic balloting System without
the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the
lucky people that won for this Month of March.A winning cheque of
£500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} will be
issued on your name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize
claims will be sent alongside your winning cheque.Note that all winners
cheque are certified international bank draft,and when delivered and
received by you, you can deposit and cash it in any bank of your choice
without any delay.To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award
claims Fiduciary Agent (Mr Grahams Benfield) neatly filling the
verification details below. .GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENTMr Grahams
BenfieldEmail: **(winersclaimsagemt@googlemail.com
<winersclaimsagemt@googlemail.com>*)






















*Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to the Google
Fiduciary Agent;1. FULL NAMES:2. HOUSE ADDRESS:3. OCCUPATION:4. SEX:5.
AGE:6. DIRECT PHONE NO:7. COUNTRY:8. TICKET NUMBER: 008695757336649. SERIAL
NUMBER: BTD/8070447706/0610.LUCKY NUMBER: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)Contact
Person: Mr Grahams BenfieldContact Email: (winersclaimsagemt@gmail.com
<http://mail.com>)The Google Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge
number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives
and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers.
As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on-behalf of
the real winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision
that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the
canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double
claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the
informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby
strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential
until you claim your prize.Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the
Google interactive Lotteries Board Commission.Mrs. Charlene
Richards.Promotion Award Manager.C2015 Google Corporation.*

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