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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 Corporations" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Jamesscothog@mail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 04:06:59 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON USD$2,754,000.00

Google Promotion Award Department®
44 Oakleugh RoadSouth
London N11 INP
United Kingdom.
2018 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON USD$2,754,000.00
 
Dear E-mail User,  Congratulation's
 
GOOGLE Winning Notification !!!
 
We are pleased to once again congratulate you on this note that part of our lucky winners selected this year. Your e-mail ID has emerged as one of the luck winner of $2,754,000.00 in our on-going Google Promotion Award. We wish to congratulate you once again 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, the Google ancillary services, support fraud victims, support widows, uplift poverty alleviation, charity aid, community development, improve the level of education worldwide, encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide for vast knowledge and also increase the standard of living of the less privileged. Hence we do believe that with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Google search engine. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains th e most widely used search engine.
 
The Google Promotion Award Team collects the E-mail ID of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL, ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND, FACEBOOK and all the social networks online, among the billions users that subscribe to internet in which your email ID emerged as one of the lucky winners that won $2,754,000.00 through electronic balloting system without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the lucky people that won for this Month of December/January
 
 
A winning cheque of $2,754,000.00 will be issued on your name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning cheque. Note that all winners cheque are certified international bank draft, and when delivered and received by you, you can deposit and cash it in any bank of your choice without any delay.
 
To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award claims Fiduciary Agent (Mr James Scothog )neatly filling the verification details below.
GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENT
Mr James Scothog
Contact Email: Jamesscothog@mail.com
 
 
Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to the Google Fiduciary Agent;
 
1. Full Name:
2. House Address:
3. Occupation:
4. Sex:
5. Age:
6. Marital Status:
7. Direct Phone No:
8. Country:
9. Ticket Number: 114252622727882
10. Serial Number SSD/8383738330/06
11.Lucky Number: 15-00-99-55-50-00(51)
 
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 the lottery on-behalf of the real winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancellation 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. Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this Email-ID. Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.
 
Mrs. Charlene Richards.
Promotion

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