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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:
  • "claims director" (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.
  • +31616719218 (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.
  • dayzerspro006@mail.nu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • dayzers@mail.nu

Fraud email example:

From: "DayzersInternational@mail.nu" <DayzersInternational@mail.nu>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:40:30 +0400
Subject: Confidential mailing notice !

DAYZERS LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
Lotto Winners of 1,500,000.00 Euros
Ref. Number: NL/BC7765468/WW14
Coupon Number: NM/896161/WOP

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the 20 announced winners
of the DAYZERS LOTTERY POGRAM held on 27th November 2006.Your Company or
your personal e-mail address is attached to winning number 20-01-2005-02MSW,
with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83, and
consequently won in the first lottery of the international category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of One Million Five
Hundred Thousand EUROS (1,500,000.00) in cash credited to file:
REF NO: NL/BC7765468/WW14 and Coupon NO.NM/896161/WOP

This is from a total prize money of 10,687,000 EUROS, shared among the
twenty international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system
drawn from 21,000 names, 3,000 names from each continent, as a part of
International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, which is conducted once in every
four years for our prominent MS WORD users all over the world, and for the
continues use of E-mail.

Your fund has been deposited in an escrow account with our affiliate Bank
here in THE NETHERLANDS, and insured with your personal REF NO:
NL/BC7765468/WW14 and your E-mail address.

You are to keep your ref. number and coupon number from the public, until
it has been processed and your money is remitted into your personal account.
We hope that you are happy with your prize, and that you will promote the
use of E-mail and the use of MS WORD.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department
by email or call, for us to be able to process and remit your winning prize
to your account. Your assigned claims Director Contact within Dayzers
Lottery is:

Mrs.Patricia Wijnen
DAYZERS LOTTERY
PALEISSTRAAT 5
2514 JA DEN HAAG
THE NETHERLANDS
TEL: +31-616-719-218
FAX: +31-847-262-754
Email: dayzerspro006@mail.nu

She is there for you to help you in claiming your due prize. Remember, all
prizes must be claimed not later than the 20th December, 2006. All funds not
claimed on or before the fixed date will be penalized accordingly.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and coupon numbers in all correspondences
with your claims director Mrs. Patricia Wijnen. All response should be sent
to dayzers@mail.nu and dayzerspro006@mail.nu



Sincerely,

Mr. Christian Thijsen
DAYZERS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM
THE NETHERLANDS

Anti-fraud resources:

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