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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 Inc" <awards2018@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mattbrittin82@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 22:20:39 +0100
Subject: Congratulation!!!


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Google Incorporation
Belgrave House
76 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ
United Kingdom.
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Winning No: GUK/877/798/2018
Ticket No: GUK/699/33/2018
Notification Date: 3/11/2018
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GOOGLE+ AWARENESS REWARD
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We are glad to inform you that 2016 was a good year for Google Inc and the=
Google Team at large, in view of this and in other for us to hit our 2017 =
Annual Target, we have decided to organize the Google+ Awareness Reward Pro=
gram, and the sole reason for this is to reward our numerous users/customer=
s/clients who in one way or the other have contributed to our great success=
and achievement and had dealings with Google Services, Search Engine, Gmai=
l, YouTube, Translator, Google Map, Google Earth, Ad Sense and also to pro=
pagate the use of Google+ which is a multilingual social networking and id=
entity service.
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The Board of Directors and Management decided to come up with this Reward =
Program to show our appreciation and also ask for your continual usage of o=
ur services. In view of this GOOGLE+ AWARENESS REWARD (GAR) was organized, =
which is first of its kind to encourage our users and also introduce our la=
test Google Tablet (Google Nexus 10), we uphold the interest of our users a=
nd customers and are always committed to give them the best. The sole purpo=
se of this awareness program is to encourage the active use of the Google+,=
Google search engine and the Google ancillary services.
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We are delighted to officially congratulate you for emerging as one of our=
lucky winner in the ongoing GOOGLE+ AWARENESS REWARD for your continual us=
age of our services, hence you are among one of the winners in the Batch A =
listing. As we believe that with your prize, you will continue to be active=
in your patronage and loyalty to Google as a total of 6 Winners emerged wo=
rldwide, drawn from different continents of the world. Your eligibility for=
this reward was due to the fact that you have used the Google services at =
one time or the other.
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A Bank Cheque have been issued in your favor, hence you have won for yours=
elf the sum of =A3 2.950.000.00 (Two Million Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousan=
d Great British Pounds Sterling) and also you have been enlisted as One of =
the Google Ambassadors for 2017.
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To claim your reward, please contact your Foreign Transfer Manager:- Sir. =
Andreas Georgetown by neatly filling the verification and funds release for=
m below, as your payment will be released and arranged by our United Kingdo=
m Office:
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CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM
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Residential Address =

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Nationality/Country =

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Date Of Birth (dd/mm/yy) =

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Sex =

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Occupation =

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To File For Your Claim, Please Contact your Foreign Transfer MANAGER SIR W=
ILLIAMS WALKER Email: sirwilliamwalker@gmail.com
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Note: You can either fill your claims verification form by printing and ma=
nually filling out the requested details or you can fill directly on e-mail=
, or provide the details on Microsoft Word.
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Congratulations from the Staff & Members of Google Incorporation.
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Sincerely,
Matt Brittin
CEO of Google UK
=A92018 Google Incorporation.

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