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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 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.
  • +31647484288 (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.
  • dueprocessunit@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: DrWLee <dueprocessunit@myway.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:44:22 -0600
Subject: CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!



DAYZERS LOTERIJ
NTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM

Date: 15-November-2006
Ref Nr: DZL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Prize Winner,
CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!

Europe/America private international e-games
organizers and co-sponsors, DAYZERS LOTERIJ,
officially bring to your notice of the final draw
result of November-2006 DAYZERS LOTERIJ -wheel

E-game, which was conducted at our international
corporate office complex in The Netherlands. Most
recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to
give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing
this the foundation seek to encourage the use of
Internet for academic and business pursuits.

It major aim is to promote music, theater,
art, literature, projects in the social and
political arena with a focus on health, as well as
science, research, and higher education. We wish to
congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email
coupon number, which was selected among the 45 lucky
consolation prize winners. Your email ID
identified with coupon No. DZL2348974321
and was selected by our E-games Random
Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000

different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your
email ID was included among the 50,000 different email
addresses submitted by our partner international email
provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of US $
500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only.
The DAYZERS LOTERIJ Group. have approved a
payout of your consolation cash prize which will be
remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency
Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to
you complete assistance and provide additional
information and processes for the claims of your consolation
prize.

For due processing of your winning claim,
please contact the DPU Information Officer
Dr.W .R Lee has been assigned to assist you.
Contact:Dr.W .R Lee
E-mail:dueprocessunit@myway.com
Tel: +31-64-748-4288
Fax: +31-84-754-6157
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Once again congratulations from all our staffs
On your consolation prize winning, we hope you will
Partake in our forth coming DAYZERS LOTERIJ Email-games.
Regards,
S. Pat Morin (Mrs.)
(Group Coordinator)
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NB: In accordance with the DAYZERS LOTERIJ
E-games
policy and regulations, this notification is
dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky
consolation prize Winners.
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This notification also contains information
that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or
otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not
the right recipient whose email address attached to
the lucky numbers along with the winning
Information’s you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy
or disseminate this notice or any part of it.
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