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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: gogglepromoawarde@googlemail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 01:39:41 +0100
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?WW91ciBlbWFpbCBpZCBoYXMgd29uIHlvdSAoNTAwLDAwMC4wMCDCo0dCUCnigI8=?=


*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 thisnote, for being part of our winners
selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage theactive users
of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services. Hence we do
believewith 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 themost
widely used search engine.The Google Promotion Award Team collects the
E-mail ID of all active users online, among the peoplethat 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 Systemwithout
the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the
lucky people that wonfor this Month of June.A winning cheque of £500,000.00
{Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} will be issuedon your
name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize claims will be
sent alongside yourwinning cheque.Note that all winners cheque are
certified international bank draft,and when delivered and received byyou,
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 BenfieldContact Email:
(winersclaimsagnte@googlemail.com <winersclaimsagnte@googlemail.com>)Kindly
forward your verification details as stated below to the Google Fiduciary
Agent;1. Full Name:....................................2. House
Address:.........................3.
Occupation:................................4.
Sex:...............................................5.
Age:...............................................6. Marital
Status:................................7. Direct Phone
No:.............................8.
Country:.......................................9. Ticket Number:
0086957573366410. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/0611.Lucky Number:
12-12-23-35-40-41(12)Contact Person: Mr Grahams BenfieldContact Email:
(winersclaimsagnte@googlemail.com <winersclaimsagnte@googlemail.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 Boardwill result to the canceling of that
particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and thereal
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 claimyour
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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