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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: "GUINNESS CUSTOMERS PROMOTION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <guinnesspromo.002@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:06:57 +0530
Subject: Winning Notification

GUINNESS CUSTOMERS PROMOTION
DV-2015 Programmed
St. Christo Road 4324 Azuela (Ecowas)
Guinness Plc, West Africa.


Winning Notification.
We happily inform you about our Guinness National Lottery Programmed held on 8th September 2015 which your email entered as an dependent client and finally took the 1st position in our category winners that falls within the West Africa region. Your email was attached to this ticket number (44-40-23-777-01) with track claim Identification number (De/015/swc08) which subsequently won you Ten million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. ($10,500,000.00) and your name will be recorded in our Guinness world book of record as the 1st lucky winner of the year 2015. You have been approved the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars ($10,500,000.00) which will be sent across to you immediately.

All emails are selected randomly through a computer ballot which subsequently won you the sweepstake of Guinness internet web lottery.
Here is our fiduciary agent Mr. Pablo Williams, responsible for the processing / release of your winnings prizes.
This is part of our security measures put in place to avoid double claiming or a situation where unwanted person(s) would be taking negative advantage of these promotions, thereby impersonating in order to claim another persons winning prize.

Fiduciary: Mr. Pablo Williams
Email: guinnesspromo.002@gmail.com
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your claim certificate and the release of your winning prices.

Full names………
Residential address………
Phone number…………
Occupation……
Sex……
Age………
Country………

Once Again, Congratulation!!
Mr. Henry Woods,
Head of Operation.

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