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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "microsoft lottery"
• 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.
  • +27836137047 (South Africa, 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.
  • harrisonkundamsa@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "micro_soft hotmail lottery" <micro_softpmtlottery@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:50:02 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION ,CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON.

MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL .INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD.PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE  GLOBE (MICROSOFT ENCOURAGE GLOBALIZATION) FROM: THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL

Headquarters:    Microsoft Campus Thames Valley

Park Reading RG6 1WG England

Customer Service: 580 NCA 85914
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/04

Batch: 12/27/Du34

 

 

 

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAW

 

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,  the  results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTION INT.

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw of the microsoft email promotion international Lottery programs  held  today 13th january 2006 in Essex United Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 75604545 188 with! Serial number 97560 drew the winning lucky number: 02/15/20/24/32/47/Bonus Ball(29) which subsequently won you the lottery in the first category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £2,000,000,00 (Two  Million United kingdom Pounds).in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of £16,000,000,00( Million Pounds ) , shared among the(8)lucky winners in this category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our email promotion international Lottery programs  representative office in Africa as indicated in your  coupon. In view of this, your,£2,000,000.00 (Two million Pounds) would be released to you by Our paying bank in African  .our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your fund as soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 100,000,000,00 companies and individuals email addresses allover the world.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.

 

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, contact our corresponding agent in South Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information is as follow: ***********************************************

Dr.Harrison Kunda.

Accredited Agent - Microsoft Lottery Agent
ADDRESS: 3012 William Nicol Drive Bryanston Johannesburg 2191

South Africa.

Office number: +27 73 798 9031

FAX                  : +27 83 613 7047

Email: harrisonkundamsa@hotmail.com

***********************************************

You are advised to contact the agents fiduciary via Telephone or email.

Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.

 

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference

and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your

correspondence with your claims fiduciary.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04

BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD

Congratulations once again from all our staff and good fortune for being

part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,

Mrs.MARISKA NOWAK.

THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

MICROSOFT.

Mr. Steve Ballmer .

Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation

N/B.You are instructed to contact Mr. Harrison Kunda. Immediately though the above Telephone or e-mail for your claim.

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