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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +31643678948 (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.
  • dzrsned2007claim@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: dzrsned@kontacts.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:44:37 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Verify your identity and claim your prize:





THE NETHERLANDS STAATSLOTERIJ:
Dayzers Nederland:
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA,
The Hague, The Netherlands.
Website: www.dayzers.nl

Dear beneficiary,

REFERENCE NUMBER: DZRS/82283922/2007:
BATCH NUMBER: 11/621/2PDH /DZRS/NL/07:

Following the official publication on Thursday, 25th of January, 2007 of results of the e-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by The Netherlands Staatsloterij corporation held on the 22nd of January, 2007 in The Hague - The Netherlands, wherein your electronic email address emerged as one of the fifty online winning emails in the 1st category, out of a total of 500,000 email addresses that were entered for the Email Lottery Ballot and has therefore attracted a cash award of One Million Euro only. This is from a total cash prize of Fifty Million Euro only, shared amongst the fifty winners in this category. Your electronic email address attached to our Lottery payment order, has the following details: (I) Ticket Number: DZRS/STLOTT/837-3845/2007: (ii) Lucky Numbers: 07, 25, 31, 49, 54, 66, 72: (iii) Batch Number: 11/621/2PDH /DZRS/NL/07: (iv) File Reference Number: DZRS/82283922/2007:.
We write to officially notify you of this award and advise you to contact our Claims Department immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning your identity verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.


For your identity verification, please contact our Claims Manager: Dr. Jerome Coles:
Tel; +31 64 367 8948 ; email: dzrsned2007claim@aim.com; while quoting: (i). Your full name(s) and Nationality; (ii). Reference Number and (iii). Batch Number:

The payment authority of your prize - One Million Euro only - already paid and insured in your name with our Paying bank will be issued to effect immediate/swift transfer in the mode you will prefer and nominate, upon satisfactory report on your identity verification and validation recommendation by our Claims Department. Email addresses registered with false names are not eligible to claiming this prize.
The Staatsloterij Award is sponsored by a consortium of software promotion companies i.e. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and Microsoft Corporation to encourage the use of the internet and promote computer literacy worldwide. We are proud to say that over 20 Million Euro are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide, as a result of our promotional programmes.
All winnings must be claimed not later than 20th of February, 2007. After this date, all unclaimed funds will be withdrawn and remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences.


Once again on behalf of all our staff, Congratulations.

Sincerely,


Mrs. Brenda Wolfgang
Lottery Coordinator
Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program - Dayzers nederland.

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