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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: chudijohnss@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:20:43 -0500
Subject: confirmation



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


Notification

Attention: Lucky Winner,



GOOGLE WINNING
NOTIFICATION

We wish to congratulate you once again 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 winning prize, you
will continue to be active and patronage to this company. Google is now
the world leading search engine worldwide, and in an effort to sure that
it remains the most widely used search engine, an online e-mail
balloting was carried out on the 20th JULY 2017 without your knowledge,
it was officially released today being .We which to formally announced
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's}

We also wish to inform you that you have successfully passed the
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications and our satisfactory
report test conducted for all our online winners. A winning Cheque will
be issued in your name by Google Promotion Award Team, and also a
certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning Cheque.

HOW DID YOU WIN?

Lucky winners do not have to purchase a ticket to participate in this
lottery program, all email was selected from the Canada, Australia,
United States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions. This
promotion was set-up to encourage the active usage of the GOOGLE(R).
Hence we do believe that with your winning prize, you will continue to
be active and patronize to the GOOGLE

These are your award details.
Security Code Number: GUK/4532345G
Ticket No: GUK/699/33/2016
Winning Number: GUK/877/798/2016

Information's required from you are part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To claim
your won prize, please contact our Foreign Claims Manager MR PAUL
CHUKWUKA neatly filling the verification and fund release form below:

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.

(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
(4) Your Full Name.
(5) Sex.
(6) Occupation.
(7) Age.
(8) Ever won an online lottery

Mode of Prize Remittance.

(1)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other
Winning Documents safely to you

You are advised to contact your Foreign Claims Manager MR PAUL CHUKWUKA
with his private email details below to avoid unnecessary delay and
complications:

******************************
FOREIGN CLAIMS MANAGER
MR PAUL CHUKWUKA
GOOGLE VALIDATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT (UK).
E-mail: chudijohnss@gmail.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 lottery 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 winners 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 the Google interactive
Lottery Board Commission.

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

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