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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "microsoft corporation word lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +2348068383298 (Nigeria, 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.
  • dr_01_green@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lawgreen@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:21:00 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION=20=21?=

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,
Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.

REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH NO: 2006JANUARL#22
WINNER NO: 5

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM




WINNING NOTIFICATION !


Dear Sir/ Madam,

We the MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform
you that you're among our winners of MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in
the UNITED KINGDOM BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA
JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 16th AUGUST,2006

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO:
5
January-2006-02MSW, with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers
887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first lottery category.
You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of GBP £950,000.00
( (Nine Hundred and, Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling Only) in cash Credited
to file REF NO:MSW-L/200-26937 this is from total prize money of GBP 27,500,000.00
POUNDS, shared among the Twenty-five (25) lucky international winners in
first and second category.

All participants were selected from Worldwide Websites especially yahoo
mail,msn mail,aol mail, icq mail through our Microsoft computer ballot system
drawn from 21,000 Names, 3,000 names from each continent (Canada, Asia,
Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania , as part
of International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, Which is conducted annually
for our prominent MS -WORD users all over the world, and to encourage the
use of Internet and Computers worldwide.

Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 and will be
ready for delivery. It will be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster
Staff in charge of United Kingdom Zone ( Dr Smith Hudges). Your E-mail
address should be used in all correspondence with your claims officer, please
Note that, you are to contact your claims officer via email and phone as
we are promoting the use of E-mail. Also you have the right to call him
to confirm your winnings and government tax payment that is all, as he will
provide you with the necessary details on how to claim Your prize.

You are to keep your REF NUMBERS and BATCH NUMBER from the public, until
you have been processed and your prize money delivered to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and the act of scamming
people of their ref number and prizes. We hope with a part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of the year High stakes of US$0.3billion
International Lottery. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact
our claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize
money to you.

THE PAYMASTER OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:

CLAIM AGENT:LOCATED AFRICA

NAME: DR.WILLIAM---MACDONALD

E-MAIL: dr_01_green@yahoo.com

TEL: 234-80-68383298


Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 1TH OCTOBER,
2006. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned
as Unclaimed and will be seen as forfeited by you hence will be donated
to charity organization around the world.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with your
claims officer. Do not reply any other mails like this on net, as they are
a lot of scam artist out there pretending to be us. You may see mails like
this do not reply. Do contact your claims officer DR. SMITH HUDGES at once,you
will be asked to provide some details to enable the office proceed with
your winning certificate and file keeping.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Microsoft
Cooperation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part
of this promotional lottery program. Our special thanks and gratitude to
Bill Gate of Microsoft and all his Associates for alliviating poverty round
the World.


Sincerely,



Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Caro Smith
(Co-ordinator). ( Secretary )



LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.

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