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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.
• 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.
  • +447011149765 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • verification_processingunit2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION CONGRATULATION" <herley_peterson003@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:51:41 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL HAS WON A MICROSOFT LOTTERY

 UK MICROSOFT JACKPOT LOTTERY

                                                           THE WINNING NUMBERS

                                                           -- ---. 

                                                       

                                                               

                     

 

REF NO: MAW/56B-672GH/L
BATCH: 4583JL/WIN

 MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY PROMOTION: UNITED KINGDOM

 

Finally, today, we announce the results  of the MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT LOTTERY  EMAIL DRAWS held on  December 2ND, 2006. Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100, With serial number 647489, consequently won in the Tenth category.Since the draw  was conducted through zonal batching of the emails sampled,and the globe was divided, in this instance ,into two zones,you are hereby notified that your winning falls under African Zone,and hence you are to be paid by our African Payment Centre.

 

You have been approved for lump sums pay out of £5000,000,00  British Pounds Sterling  cash Credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number --- --- Selection process was carried out through random sampling in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses
from 29,031 lists of E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation. This is to encourage our prominent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and for the  Continuing use of E-mail facilities.

 

Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number ---- -. To claim your winning prize,contact the claims department by email below for Processing and remittance of your prize to you.

 

The Claims Processor:
Name:Mr. Kelvin Maxwell

E-mail:verification_processingunit2@yahoo.co.uk

Phone: +44 70111 49765

 

 

 

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and winning numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your winning serial ,and file reference numbers.

(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained)

PLEASE, NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO INCLUDE ALL THE DATA BELOW WHEN CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:

1.Full Name:.............................................................

 

2.Address:................................................................

 

3.Nationality:...........................................................

 

4.Sex:...................................................................

 

5.Age:.........................Date of Birth:............................

 

6.Occupation:............................................................

 

7.Home Tel:..........Mobile Tel:................Fax:.................

8.State of Origin:.....................Country:.......................

 

9.Indicate the zone where your winning falls.....................

 

 

                                            

           

  

 Mrs. Herley Peterson                                      

   Online Co-ordinator                                                  

 

                                    

                                    LOTTERY SPONSOR  

                                               Microsoft Corporation U.K.

                                                 
 

____________________________________________________________________________________

                                                           NOTE:

Do not reply this mail, you are to contact your claims officer immediately by email. Microsoft Electronic Mail Lottery is approved and Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

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