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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: "Dr.Godwin Spear " <"WWW."@cup.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Dr.Godwin Spear " <williamsween11@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 08:45:10 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Google ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION PAYMENT OF$850,000.00 USD

Google Incorporated. Google Africa Ltd
Plot 257 -Grove Plaza 398 6th St SW Benin Rep,
United States Winning No Guk/877/790/2017
Ticket No Guk/667/33/2017
Notification Date Sept /15/17

Google ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION PAYMENT OF$850,000.00 USD

We wish to congratulate you once again on this notice, for being part of our winner selected this year. this promotion was set-up to encourage the active user of the Google search engine and the google ancillary service. The online draws was conduct by a random selection of email address from an exclusive list of E-mail address of individuals and cooperate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. however, no tickets were sold but all email address we assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The select process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email address draw from all the continents of the world. The lottery is approved by the United States Gaming Board and also licensed by the international Association Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.Hence we do believe with your winner 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, we ran online e-mail beta United states dollars) A winning Master visa Card sum of (US$850,000.00} will be issued in your name by google promotion award Team.Please you are advise to complete the form bellow and send it immediately to our claims Administrator through email or Fax for prompt of your winner fund.

You are advise to contact your Claims Administrator with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications;

(1) Your Contact Address:
(2) Your Contact Telephone/Mobile Number:
(3) Your Nationality/Country:
(4) Your Full Names:
(5) Occupation:
(6) Age/Gender:
(7) Marital Status:
(8) Private Email Address:
(9) Ever Won An Online Lottery?
(10) How Do You Feel As A Winner?
(11) REGISTRATION NO:
(12) Master visa Card No:
(13) What is your comment on Google Product and Services
(14) How many children do you have

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.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The claims Administrator Google Promotion Award Team.
Mr.William Sweeney
Google Promotion Award Team
Email williamsween11@outlook.com
Phone (+229 98 50 92 17)

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 measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be WARNED!!!!
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of ATM Visa Card International.

Dr.Godwin Spear
President and Chief Executive Officer,
ATM VisaCard® International.
(©2017) MasterCard® International.
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