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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: Mr Robertson Gilland <alexogene4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: suntrustbkndepat@accountant.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:22:12 -1100
Subject: SDSDS

Google International Free Lottery
Google United Kingdom
Belgrave House
76 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ
United Kingdom.
Notification Date:19/07/2021

Dear Google free lottery winner,

We use this opportunity to congratulate you being selected as part of
our winners 5th of July 2021,This promotion was set up to encourage
the active users of Google search engine world wide and the Google
ancillary services.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection emails addresses
from an exclusive list of E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer
search from different website on the internet.However,no tickets were
sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers
for representation and privacy.The selection machine (TOPAZ) from
database of over 580,000 emails addresses drawn from all the
continents of the world .

This lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed
by the International Assoiation of Gaming Regulations(IAGR).This is
the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

Hence we do believe 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 its
remains the most widely used search engine,we ran an online e-mail
beta test which your email address was listed in the first category
and won £2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British
Pounds Sterling )A winning cheque will be issued in your name by
Google Promotion Award Team.

You are advised to contact your claim Administrator with the following
details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:

Mr John J.Billings
Google Promotion Award Team
Email:fbltteroffice.a@insurer.com
Phone +44 90 6643 3465


Regards,
Mr Phill Anderson
International Google Free lottery (coordinator)

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