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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Yvonne=20Van=20Oort?= <yvonnevanoort@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: denyswillem@inMail24.com
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:59:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: WINNING CONGRATULATION!


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: yvonnevanoort@yahoo.de

Dutch National Lottery (SENS)

(Stichting Exploitatie Nederlandse Staatsloterij)

Paleisstraat 5 Den Haag NL-2514 JA

The Netherlands.

http://www.staatsloterij.nl/


We are pleased to announce that in a bid to sensitize the entire world, we have embarked on a promotional lottery and you have been randomly selected as one of the winners. This process was carried out using our bulk emailing software to randomly select email addresses from a pool of over 50 Million email addresses worldwide. The monies accrues from the bulk sum of monies we have unclaimed in our “unclaimed account” from jackpots winners who never came to claim their winnings either as a result of being unaware of due to some negligence on their part as regards proper handling of their tickets/winning numbers.


This effectively qualifies you for the selection along with five other winners to jointly share the total prize of 15 Million Euros (Fifteen Million Euros) of which 3 Million (Three Million Euros Only) is your Prize money.


Conditions for claiming Prize


1. You must respond with the email with which you were selected otherwise you would be automatically disqualified. Change of email address would be subject to approval from our finance agent which we would mandate to effect your payment.


2. You must be a non-resident of The Netherlands as this promo is for non-residents only.


3. You must be 18 yrs or older. If discovered that you are younger, you would be automatically disqualified.


4. You cannot transfer your claims as it must be processed by you and no third parties would be authorized under any circumstances.


5. As instructed you would contact our finance agents who would process your claims and effect payment accordingly.


6. You are to contact our finance agents within 7 days after receiving this notification, failure to do so would lead to automatic disqualification.


You are to contact the under listed person via email on the modalities on how to claim your prize:


Denys Willem

JLD Financial consultants

TM 1 11, WTC Blding, Piscadera Bay, Willemstad

P.O. Box 1087

Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Email: denyswillem@inMail24.com


When you contact him please simply put your email address as the header with Ref No: DNL/1896/99/2006, failure to do this might leave your email unattended to and that might lead to the expiration of the 7 day deadline


PLEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS EMAIL, SIMPLY CONTACT OUR ACCREDITED AGENT AS STATED ABOVE!


PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT SECURITY INFORMATION!


There are a lot of emails circulating round which either claim to be Dutch National Lottery or some many other forms of lotteries. Please note that they are no good and their primary aim is to scam you of your hard-earned funds so beware!


Regards,


Mrs. Yvonne Van Oort

Lottery Diector

Dutch National Lottery





- Yvonne Van Oort


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