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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 Award <fritzhindnburg@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info.fpaycenter@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 07:52:29 +0100
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?YOU_HAVE_WON_=C2=A3500=2C000=2E00?=


*Google Promotion Award Department*
*Belgrave House*
*76 Buckingham Palace Road*
*London SW1W9TQ*
*United Kingdom.*

*NOTE: If you received this message on your SPAM/JUNK folder, it's because
of your internet isp server. *

*2022 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.*

*Dear Email User,*
*Your e-mail ID has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 (Five hundred
thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling) 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, covid-19
pandemic support, 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 the 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, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM 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 GBP500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand
Great Britain Pounds Sterling} through electronic balloting system without
the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the
lucky people that won for this month.*

*A winning cheque of GBP£500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British
Pounds Sterling} 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 winner's 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 Grahams Benfield)*
*neatly filling the verification details below.*

*GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENT*
*Mr Grahams Benfield*
*Contact Email: info.fpaycenter@gmail.com <info.fpaycenter@gmail.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: 00869575733664*
*10. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/06*
*11.Lucky Number: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)*

*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 in 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 winning information
strictly confidential until you claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program.*

*Congratulations from the Staff & Members of Google Board Commission.*

*Mrs. Charlene Richards.*
*Promotion Award Manager.*
*C2022 Google Corporation.*
*Website:* *http://google.org* <http://google.org/>

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