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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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Fraud email example:

From: Google =?utf-8?B?SW5jwq4=?= <idyani@doa.gov.my>
Reply-To: Google =?utf-8?B?SW5jwq4=?= <gp_larry_p@163.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 03:16:11 +0800 (MYT)
Subject: Ref No: GFSP/ 7748/7782/2015


Google Corporation®
123 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9SH United Kingdom

Ref No: GFSP/ 7748/7782/2015
Batch: GFSP/955/GPWIN/UK

Notification Date: Award 2015

RE: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION LETTER.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read
carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of result
of the E-mail Electronic Online Sweepstakes Organized by Google in conjunction with the
foundation for the Promotion of Software Products, (F.P.S) held, 2015 here in London, United
Kingdom. Google earns its profit mainly from advertising its products and services, using their
very own Google Search Engine, Gmail, Gala-mail, Sify E-mail service, Google Maps, Google Apps,
Orkut social networking and You Tube video sharing, which are all offered to the public for free.

We wish to congratulate you once again, for being among the Twelve (12) selected winners in
the ongoing E-mail Electronic Online Sweepstakes. Hence we do believe with your prize, you
will continue to be active in your patronage to Google and its products. A Bank Cheque has been
issued in your favor, hence you have won for yourself the sum of £950,000.00 (Nine Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling), One Google Nexus 10 Tablet and also you
have been enlisted as one of the Google Ambassadors for one whole Year.

To claim your reward, please contact our Foreign Payment officer below by neatly filling the
verification and funds release form below, as your payment will be released and arranged by our
United Kingdom Office.

MANADATORY FOREIGN PAYMENT RELEASE FORM
1) Your Contact Address:
2) Your Contact telephone/Mobile Number:
3) Your Nationality/Country:
4) Your full Names:
5) Your Occupation:
6) Your Age & Gender:
7) Your Marital Status:
8) Your Private E-mail Address (es):
9) Have You Ever Won An Online Lottery?
10) How Do You Feel As A Winner?
11) Your Preferred Mode of Prize Remittance from the options below:


(a). Cash Pick-Up (You as the Beneficiary coming Down to UK to Receive your Award
Personally, this option is available only to British Citizens and residents).

(b). Courier Delivery of your certified winning cheque in your name and other
Winning Documents safely to you.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
Contact our Foreign Payment Bureau officer with the details
below. Larry Page
Senior Fellows E-mail accounts as follows
Email 1: gp_larry_p@163.com
Email 2: gp.larry.p@googlemail.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note: You can either fill your claims verification form by printing and manually filling out
the requested details or you can fill directly on e-mail or provide the details on Microsoft
Word.

NOTE!!! For Security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our
precautionary measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this Program by
some unscrupulous elements. Please be WARNED!!!!

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.
MD. Matt Brittin Larry Page
Chairman of Board and Managing Director Co-Founder & CEO
Google United Kingdom Google Incorporation®

This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee, do not disclose, copy,
circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this email or any attachments. If received in error,
notify the sender immediately and delete this email and any attachments from your system. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be
secure or error free as the message and any attachments could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, delayed, incomplete or amended.
Google Corporation and its subsidiaries do not accept liability for damage caused by this email or any attachments and may
monitor email traffic.
©2015 Google Corporation®


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