419 scam: Dr Henry Azunna <henryazunna@sbcglobal.net> ShellPetroleum Development of England

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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:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
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.
- henryazunna@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dr Henry Azunna <henryazunna@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: henryazunna@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:20:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ShellPetroleum Development of England

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ShellPetroleum Development of
England
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Shell
Centre, London,
SE1 7NA - United Kingdom Tel:

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BATCH REF: AGST/008/YY

This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of two Hundred Thousand Great
Britain Pounds(200,000.00 GB
Pounds) for the 2009
International E-mail Draw which is
Organized by Shell
Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

SPDC collects
all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions
that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla, Gmail, Russian
Mail and Hotmail and few
from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected yearly to benefit from this
promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners
shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Shell Award must be
claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not
claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below is your
identification number:

REFERENCE NUMBER:
SPDC-081511

This numbers
fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our
fiduciary agent in London
[ Dr Henry
Azunna with the details below and send your winning
identification numbers to him;

Dr Henry
Azunna,
E-Mail:henryazunna@gmail.com

Full Name:......................... .
Resident
Address:..................
Sex:..........................
.............
Occoupation:.................. .................
Phone
Number:....................... ..........
Age:..........................
............................

He shall
immediately commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund
to you.

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,
Dr. (Mrs.) Lynda
Johnson
[Publicity
Secretary]

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