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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 Org" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <enquiry.jeremy1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 00:38:48 -0700
Subject: Google Alert: Secure Code: 864/17.

Google UK Ltd
1-13 St Giles High Street
London WC2H 8AG
United Kingdom
Website: www.google.org
 
 
More Details of Google Partner Awareness Team:
 
 
Confirm Receipt of this mail with Ref. UK/231-10102AZ/GFG , Secure Code: 864/17.
 
 
We wish to congratulate you on this note for being selected as a major customer this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of Google search engine and the Google ancillary services and confirmed by our co-sponsors Visa*/MasterCard* International.
 
Hence we do believe with your grant, you will continue to be active and patronize 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, we ran an online e-mail beta test which your email address won Eight Hundred and Sixty-Four Thousand Great British Pounds. We wish to formally inform you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verification, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted to all on-line winners. A bank draft of Eight Hundred and Sixty-Four Thousand Great
 
Furthermore your details (e-mail address) falls within our UK representative office as indicated in our database and your grant will be released to you from our UK regional office in London United Kingdom.
 
Google Partner Awareness Team
Mr. Jeremy Allison
Google's general counsel and executive vice president, Legal and Corporate Affairs
Email: Kindly repl-to mrjeremyallison@gmail.com
enquire.jeremy@gmail.com
 
 
-Residential Address:
-Tel (Mobile):
-Nationality/Country:
-Full Name: -Age/Sex:
-E-mail Address:
-Occupation/Position:
-What is your comment on Google Foundation?
-Your preferred mode of grant remittance from the options below:
 
 
(a) Courier Delivery of your Certified Grant Bank Draft in your name and other vital documents safely to your address.
 
 
Google values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this grant only.
 
 
Note: This is a FOUNDATION GRANT not a LOTTERY. Google is not into LOTTERY.
 
 
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 measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.
 
 
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google and Google Foundation Board.
 
 
Sincerely,
Mr. Sundar Pichai.
 
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer ©2017 Google Corporation Powered by Google All right reserved. This email was sent from a notification email address. The information in this email is confidential and legally privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). Please consider the environment
 

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