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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.
  • +31627124600 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "helen_ince@ny.com" <helen_ince@ny.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:18:11 +0100
Subject: CONSOLATION PRIZE NOTICE

DAYZERS LOTERIJ
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM



Date: 16th-OCTOBER-2005
Ref Nr: DZL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,


CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE!!!


Europe / America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
DAYZERS LOTERIJ, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of
OCTOBER-2005.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 WHEEL E-game.Your email ID was included among
the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partners international
email provider companies.You have won a consolation cash prize of
$500,000.00USD (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 Mr.Van Martins who has been assigned to
assist you.

Contact E-mail:vandebour@uk2.net

TEL:+31-627-124-600
FAX:+31-847-271-262
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,

Helen Ince (Mrs).

(Group Coordinator)
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. 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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