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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:

• 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.
  • +31620488226 (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.
  • nmdayzersnl@gawab.com
  • nmdayzersnl@boster.com

Fraud email example:

From: mohammed@mohammedalsaud.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 21:21:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?DAYZERS_LOTERIJ_AWARDS_YOUR_E?=
=?UTF-8?Q?MAIL_ADDRESS_=E2=82=AC1,000,000.00!!!?=


DAYZERS LOTERIJ AWARDS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS €1,000,000.00!!!
DAYZERS YEARLY INTERNET LOTERIJ N.L
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM
Date: 8th December, 2006
Ref Nr: DZ/610/74NL.
Batch Number: 021/583/06.
Lucky Number: 7, 14, 16, 30, 42, 45.
Pin Code: 0259.

Dear Email Bearer,

YEARLY CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!

Dayzers yearly internet loterij has been released: your email address attached to above winning details had been confirmed and hereby eligible for payment. The global e-games organizers and Co-sponsors, NOVELL, MICROSOFT & DAYZERSLOTERIJ, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of December - 2006 NOVELL, MICROSOFT & DAYZERSLOTERIJ wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The Netherlands.(check: www.dayzers.nl)

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.
Your email ID identified with Batch Number: 021/583/06 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from 623,000 different email addresses selected for the E-game draw.
You have won a consolation cash prize of €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros Only). The NOVELL, MICROSOFT & DAYZERSLOTERIJ Group has approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remitted directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.
Our PRIZE PROCESSING DEPARTMENT (PPD) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information to claiming your consolation prize.
For immediate processing of your winning claim, please contact the PPD Information Officer Dr. Mike Van Snek who has been assigned to assist you.

Contact:
NAME: Dr. Mike Van Snek
Tel: +31 620 488 226
Fax: +31 847 293 785
E-mail: nmdayzersnl@gawab.com
Alt.e-mail: nmdayzersnl@boster.com

You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Phone/Fax number:
Address:
Age:
Occupation:
Country:
Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming NOVELL, MICROSOFT & DAYZERSLOTERIJ Email-games. If you are below 18years, right to claiming prize should be accorded to your parents or older relations.
Regards,
Rita Van Gogh (Mrs.).
(Group Coordinator)
***************************** PLEASE NOTE *******************************
In accordance with the NOVELL, MICROSOFT & DAYZERSLOTERIJ E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 3 lucky consolation prize Winners. 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.
Copy Right © 2006 DAYZERSLOTERIJ NL. All Rights Reserved>

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