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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "dayzer lotto" <dayzer25@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:21:12 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS.

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 500,000.00(Five hundred thousand euro only).
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 not purchased.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:

CLAIMS OFFICER: JENNIFER DICKSON
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
20th 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 Manager.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam