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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.
• 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 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.
  • claimagent_jacob@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: DAYZERS LOTTERY <dayzers@dlottery3.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:10:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: #####YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON YOU $1 MILLION
DOLLARS!!!!!!(CONGRATULATION)####


DAYZERS LOTTO. BV
DAYZERS-WHEEL E-GAME 2006
LONDON BRANCHOFFICE
Customer Service Department
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
www.dayzers.nl

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

This emailconfirms that you have been notified of by the DAYZERS INTER LOTTO BVLondon Branch office of your email lottery winning for 2006 DAYZERSLotto - Wheel E-game held on 25th February 2006.We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number whichwas selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon NUMBER.PBL2348974321 and was selected byElectronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Youremail ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses wheresubmitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Prize Ref No.: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Lottery Group: Consolation PrizeGroup
Dayzers website: www.dayzers.nl
Prize Amount: US $1 MillionDollars Only*

You are required to file claims for your lottery prizewinning by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer in UK withyour winning information provided above and the requied informationbelow.

FULLNAME:
FOWARDING ADDRESSE:
CITY/STATE:
COUNTRY OFORIGIN:
MARITAL STATUS:
NATIONALITY:
SEX and AGE
DATE OFBIRTH:
TEL/FAX NR:
OCCUPATION:
CURRENT EMAIL

Please you are tochoose your payment option at which you want your fund Paid to you;listed below is our payment modalities and option of payment.

(1)TRAVELLING TO THE NETHERLAND FOR CASH COLLECTION (Send flight
itineraryto confirm your arival /appointment Date}
(2) BY COURIER SERVICE:
(3)ELECTRONIC WIRE TRANSFER:

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Mr.JacobVosesstine
Email: claimagent_jacob@yahoo.com.hk
Tel:+(44) 703 1835837
Tel:+(44)7024029244
Fax:+4470478944

Note:The official time forcalling is Monday to Friday 7am-8pm London time Congratulationsonce again from all our staffs both here in London and Netherland onyour consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming DAYZERS Lotto-Wheel Email-games.

Yours truly,
Mrs.RoselineKent,
(Lottery Coordinator)

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