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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Edsilia Simons" <edsilia_simons22@mail.nu>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:47:04 +0500
Subject: DAYZERS PROMO RESULT!!!

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

*DAYZERS LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS*



Dear Prize Winner,



CONGRATULATIONS!!!


We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of the
DAYZERS LOTTERY BV, DE NETHERLANDS of your email lottery winning for 2007
DAYZERS LOTTO-Wheel held on 14th JUNE 2007.



All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.



Ref. Number: NL/BC7765468/WW14
Lottery Group: Bonus ball number: 02
Prize Amount: 1.500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro Only)


You are to keep your ref. number and coupon number from the public, until
you have been processed and your money remitted to your personal account.



Your Contact Officer is:
Mr. Smith Van Dijk
PALEISSTRAAT 5
2514 JA DEN HAAG
THE NETHERLAND



TEL: 0031-626-515-485.
FAX: 0031-847-521-825.
Email: director033@netscape.net



NOTE: Please remember to quote your reference and coupon numbers in all
correspondences with your claims director and congratulations once again.



Sincerely,



Edsilia Simons
International Relation Officer.

NB: All response should be mail to De Award Department:
director033@netscape.net.


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