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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 Promotion Winning Award" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drpaulwestonsn@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:02:38 +0200
Subject: Award

Oakfield Road, Moss Ln
HULL, HU6 7RX
United Kingdom.
Winning No: GOUK/7828/2019
Ticket No: GOUK/7828/2019
Notification: 2019
 
                              GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION 2019.
 
We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being part of our selected winners in our just concluded internal promotion draw this year, this promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services.
 
Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be an active patronage to the
Google search engine and services. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta draw which your email address won One Million Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (1, 950, 000.00). We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.
 
A winning check will be issued in your name by Google Promotion Award; for the sum of One Million Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (1, 950,000.00) and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning check cashable at any bank.
 
You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
 
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
 
(1) Your Contact Address/Private Email Address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax Numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
(4) Your Full Name.
(5) Occupation/Company.
(6) Age/Gender.
(7) Ever Won An Online Lottery?
 
Paul weston (Program Coordinator)
Email: paulwestonsn@gmail.com
Mode of Price Remittance
 
*Cash Pick-Up (You as the Beneficiary coming down to the United Kingdom to receive your Award Personally).
 
*Your winning money is payable through bank transfer
 
*Courier Delivery of your ATM Visa Card in your Name with Winning Fund inside.
 
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 from its headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning, leading to 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.
 
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the Google interactive Lotteries Board Commission.
 
Yours faithfully,
Lawrence Page
Co-founder of Google™

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