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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" <dayzer23@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:02:54 +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 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:

MR VAN PETE.
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA Den Haag , Holland/Nederland.
REPLY TO:dayzernl01@walla.com
TEL:0031-649-228-380,

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 26th 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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