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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: VERUMLEM KLEITH <mystudentsece@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mike.beekens@execs.com
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 23:20:23 +0000
Subject: GOOGLE 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 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 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 online e-mail
balloting was carried
out on the 20th JULY 2017 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.

These are your prize winning details.
Security Code/Batch Number: GUK/4532345G
Ticket Number: GUK/699/33/2017
Winning Number: GUK/877/798/2017

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 & Members of the Google interactive
Lottery Board
Commission.

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

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