419 scam: "VERUMLEM KLEITH"<plastiikdemir@gmail.com> WINNING NOTIFICATION.

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mike.beekens@execs.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "VERUMLEM KLEITH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mike.beekens@execs.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 01:57:55 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION.

Google Incorporation®.
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.

Attention: Lucky Winner.

GOOGLE WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being part of our lucky winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active use of
the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services. Hence we do believe with your prize winning, you will continue to be active and patronize to this company.

Google is now the leading search engine worldwide, and in an effort to ensure that it remains the most widely used search engine. An Easter online e-mail balloting was carried out on the 10th of April, 2020 without your knowledge. Results were officially released today. We wish to formally announce to you that your email address was attached to a lump sum of £850,000.00 {Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling}.

HOW DID YOU WIN?

Lucky winners did not have to purchase a ticket to participate in the lottery program. Email addresses was selected from North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active usage of the GOOGLE(R) brand. Hence we do believe that with your prize winning, you will continue to be active and patronize GOOGLE services.

These are your prize winning details.
Security Code/Batch Number: GUK/4532345G
Ticket Number: GUK/699/33/2020
Winning Number: GUK/877/798/2020

Information required from you are part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program. To claim your winning, Please fill out the information below:

(1) Your contact address:
(2) Your Direct Telephone/mobile numbers:
(3) Your Nationality/Country:
(4) Your Full Name:
(5) Sex:
(6) Occupation:
(7) Age:

Please contact our Claims Officer:
MR MICHAEL BEEKENS
GOOGLE VALIDATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT (UK).
E-mail: mike.beekens@execs.com

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 winnings and also sharing their identification numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the winnings on behalf of the real winners. The google promotion award
committee has reached a decision from the headquarters at the United Kingdom that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the disqualification of the winner. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings
strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs and Members of the Google Interactive Lottery Board Commission.

Yours Sincerely,
MRS. VERUMLEM KLEITH.
GOOGLE ZONAL COORDINATOR
LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM

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