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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"
• 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 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.
  • ms_wordlottolottery_mail2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "lotto lottery" <www_mugu111@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:55:26 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON LOTTERY PRIZE FU ND(X5,500,000.00)






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: 2005SEPTL#22
WINNER NO: 5

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM



WINNING NOTIFICATION MS-WORD LOTTERY 2006!


Dear Sir/ Madam,

We the MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you
of the today’s winners of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in
GHANA BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO
WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 11th... OF NOVEMBER 2006.

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5
JUNE 2006 - 20 MSW, 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 £5,500,000.00 (
(Five Million, Five hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) 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
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 (certified cheque) 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 African zone ( DR. WILLIAMS
AHMAD HENRY ). 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. number 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 next year High stakes of US$0.3billion
International Lottery. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact
our African claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your
prize money to you.

THE PAYMASTER OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:



DR. WILLIAMS AHMAD HENRY
(AGENT PAYMASTER)
EMAIL:ms_wordlottolottery_mail2006@yahoo.com
TEL: +233- 24683-9175

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 30th OF
NOVEMBER 2006. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be
returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organization in Africa.

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. WILLIAMS
AHAMD HENRY).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,
(Photograph)

Mrs. Basheera Abubakar
(Co-ordinator).

Mrs. Caro Smith
( Secretary )


LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.
Past winners.
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2006-LOTTO FUND!!!

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