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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: dayzerlottery@mail.bg
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:21:30 +0300
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 =881.500.000.00(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
=8810,000,000.00 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</br>-----------------------------</br>
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