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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 Promo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <enquiryinfo916@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:08:04 -0800
Subject: Dear Google User,

Dear Google User,


RE: GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR NEW YEAR 2019 PROMO

We wish to congratulate you 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 and the Google ancillary services and confirmed by our co-sponsors Visa®/MasterCard® International. Google earns its profit mainly from advertising using their very own Gmail, Gala, Sify e-mail services, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut social networking, You Tube video sharing, Google search engine and the Google ancillary services which are all offered to the public for free.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronize 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 an online e-mail beta test which your email address won US$1,000,000.00 {ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY}.

We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted to all on-line winners. A winning of US$1,000,000.00 will be issued in your name by the Google Promotion Award Team.

Furthermore your details (e-mail address) falls within our UK representative office as indicated in our database and your prize money of (USD$ 1,000,000.00) will be released to you from the bangkok regional office in Kingdom Thailand.
To begin your lottery claims, you are to contact our Google Payment Coordinator as follows,
............................................................................................................................................
Name: Mrs. Chang Gigi Waranporn
Tel/Fax: +66621044797
Tel:+6629872611
Email: enquiryinfo916@gmail.com
............................................................................................................................................
You are advised to contact our Google Payment Coordinator (Mrs. Chang Gigi Waranporn) via the above email with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications.

MANDATORY VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.

(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Your Contact Address.
(3) Your Direct Tel
(4) Your Nationality/Country.
(5) Age
(7) Marital Status
(8) Your Preferred Mode Of Prize Remittance From The Two Options Below:

(a) Cash Pick-Up (Coming down personally to our office in Thailand to receive your winning prize, available to only Thai citizens and residents).

(b) Payment via bank to bank transfer either by MT103 swift transfer or by online status which is via your bank account with us to your bank you wish to transfer from (bank to bank transfer.)

Google values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this award only.

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 pin numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim their winnings on behalf of the real winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling 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 advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission and we wish you continued good fortunes.

Sincerely,
Larry P
Co-founder & CEO of Google™

©2019 Google Corporations® all rights 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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