The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Sam Peri <perisam@ymail.com> Subject:     CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT LOTTERY PRIZE:$1,850,000 Date:     Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:00:32 +0700 (ICT) (04:00 EDT) Winning Hot Lotto Shell IS FOR YOU ONLY GHANA INDONESIA KENYA CANADA AUSTRALIA IRELAND PERU JAPAN IRAN IRAQ KUWAIT QATAR LIBIYA Shell Petroleum Development of Ghana BATCH REF:SEP /2008 This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of  One Million Eight Hundred And FiftyThousand  United State Dollars($1,850,000) for the 2008 International E-mail Draw which is Organized by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).                       JAKARTA INDONESIA BRANCH SPDC collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla, Gmail, Russian Mail and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Shell Award must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Stated below is your identification number: REFERENCE NUMBER: SPDC-081511 This numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Asia [Dr.Abdul Abubaka] with the details below and send your winning identification numbers to him; E-Mail:abdulabubaka18@yahoo.com Tel:+62-85691887494 He shall immediately commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund to you. Congratulations!! once again. Yours in service, Dr. (Mrs.) ROSELYN  JONES [Publicity Secretary] Past winners.   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.