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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 Promotion Award" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <caldwelltammysoffice@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 19:34:14 -0700
Subject: GOOGLE Winning Notification !!!

Google Promotion Award Department®
44 Oakleugh RoadSouth
London N11 INP
United Kingdom.
2016 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY.
 
 
 
Dear E-mail User,
 
 
 
 
 
NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/JUNK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, you are advice to treat it genuinely.
 
 
We are pleased to congratulate you on this note, because you are one of our lucky winners selected this last quarter of the year (2018). Your e-mail ID has emerged as a winner of $2,754,000.00 in our on-going Google Promotion Award. We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google search engine, the Google ancillary services, support fraud victims, support widows, uplift poverty alleviation, charity aid, community development, improve the level of education worldwide, encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide for vast knowledge and also increase the standard of living of the less privileged. Hence, We do believe that with 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 the most widely used search engine.
 
 
 
The Google Promotion Award Team collects the E-mail ID of all active users online, among the people that 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 emerged as one of the lucky winners that won G$2,754,000.00 through electronic balloting system without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the lucky people that won this last quarter of the year (2018).
A winning cheque of $2,754,000.00 will be issued on your name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning cheque. Note that all winners cheque are certified international bank draft, and when delivered and received by you, you can deposit and cash it in any bank of your choice all over the world without any delay.
 
 
To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award claims Fiduciary Agent (Mrs. Caldwell Tammys ) filling the verification details below.
 
 
 
GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENT
Mrs. Caldwell Tammys
Contact Email: caldwelltammysoffice@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: 00869575733664
10. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/18
11.Lucky Number: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
 
 
 
Most Importantly, 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 their winning details. 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 Board will result to the cancellation of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advice to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize. Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this Email-ID.
 
 
 
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Promotion Award.
 
 
 
Mrs. Charlene Richards.
Google Promotion.
 

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