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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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Fraud email example:

From: "dayzer lotto" <dayzerlotto21@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:38:14 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON.

FROM: THE DESK OF DAYZERSLOTERIJ BV,
HOLLAND-HEAD OFFICE,
DEN-HAAG
THE NETHERLANDS.
WEBSITE: www.dayzers.nl

CONGRATULATIONS ! Your Email address has been selected as one of seven
winning Email addresses of the Worldwide Scientific
Game Promo Award in NETHERLANDS; computer ballot draws and thus will be a
privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of 1.000.000.00(One
million euro) Which is Approximately $1.326197 USD, Winning File Reference
number for your prize is Ail/571639NL, ticket number 049 - 31662498 -385. We
in the
Worldwide DAYZERSLOTERIJ BV, Den Haag-Netherland is by this program,
launching our model computer balloting lottery draws,
developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of
people using the
Internet and other computer programs . This is a part of our international
promotion program which holds once a
year for the disbursement of prizes attached to tickets that were
notpurchased.With funds accrued
exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and
will be transferred in record time. After randomly
selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and
zoning all
participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we
produced an extensive list from which your EMAIL
address has emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize. To ensure
a smooth collection of your winnings, we shall provide you with full
contact details of our contractual Finance Management Bureau, upon reception
of your winning
claim request. Therefore you are advice to confirm your winning reference
number by email within a week of receiving
this notice. Please find

contact details below:
JENNIFER MAXWELL,
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA Den Haag , Holland/Nederland.
REPLY TO:dayzernl13@walla.com
TEL:0031-643-764-220,
Also find all other relevant winning lottery
information below: Draw

Serial No:87669. Batch No: 47/02569/NLP. Grand Draw No: 539- 687 - 217 - 93.
For due procession and the remittance of your
prize money to a designated account of your choice. Note; all prize money
must be claimed
not later than 9th october, 2005.After this date, all funds will be returned
as unclaimed.
Note; A secured Insurance bond has been solicited on your behalf; In your
interest to protect all prize money from being
claim by any other party. We advice that you keep all informations and
documents relating to
your prize award from public notice, as whoever comes with this informations
and proof will likely claim your prize
and the promotion companies or your fiduciary agent will not be liable;this
is in line with our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program by unscrupulous individuals. This lottery
program was promoted by our group of philanthropist headed by Mr.Bill Gates,
and co-sponsored by Netscape Network, Toshiba, Hewlett
Packard , Fujitsu, Siemens . We hope with part of your prize, you will
participate in our end of
year high stakes 10,000,000.00 Million Euros International Lottery in the
year 2005.
Please be informed that NON RESIDENT OF THE NETHERLANDS will be required to
Notarized his/her winning TRANSFERS from
the high court in the Netherlands before PAYMENT can be made out into their
respective bank
accounts; This is prior to award money transfers policy of the Netherlands
(Gaming Board) as required by the paying Authority.
You are also advised to direct all further correspondences and queries to
your respective category Prize Transfer handlers which contacts will be
provided to you afterwards.
Congratulations once again from DAYZERSLOTERIJ BV.Note: Anybody under the
age of 18 is

AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED.
Sincerely,
Laurie van Hook,
International Promotions Manageress,
www.dayzers.nl


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