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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +31649208996 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • dayzerlottery@mail.az (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DAYZERSLOTERIJ BV" <dayzers_winningnotification@yahoo.de>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 02:39:41 -0700
Subject: FROM: THE DESK OF DAYZERSLOTERIJ BV

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 €1.500.000.00(One million Five Hundred Thousand
euro) 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. Robort Van Paul,
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA Den Haag, Holland/Nederland.
EMAIL: dayzerlottery@mail.az
TEL: +31-649-208-996,

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
20 Days, 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, and 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 2006.
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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