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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 lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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 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.
  • agent_luis_andrade09@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Grace Richardson" <info_alert@latinmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:21:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: YOU WON OUR PRIZE


OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS
NEW YEAR PROMOTION RESULTS DRAWINGS/NOTIFICATION.

ATTENTION
RESULT CONFIRMATION MLTT/MTU/2007TN FOR REF. NUMBER MCS/231OXI/05

Congratulations! You are among the ten (10) randomly selected for the New Year Microsoft Lottery held in London. Selection was made using special software to generate valid email addresses at random from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world. All facilities and computer software were tested by Statisticians.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5224652456UT with serial number 5388/02, batch number 12L/2007/04, lottery ref number MCS/231OXI/05 and drew lucky numbers: 03, 07, 15, 38, 43, 47 and bonus ball 32 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.
Apparently, 10 individual email addresses were selected to receive from a total cash prize of 8.5 million pounds. You have therefore been approved for the total sum of 850,000 (eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds) in cash credited to file MLTT/MTU/2007TN.
==================================================================================

Claims Requirements:
1. Name in full:
2. Address in full:
3. Nationality:
4. Age:
5. Sex:
6. Occupation:
7. Phone/Fax:
8. Present Country:
9. Email Address:
10. Alternative Email Address:
11. Mode of Payment (Mark X for Proffered Method)
(a)Bank Wire Transfer ( )
(b)Cheque Delivery ( )

CLAIMS AGENT

Mr. Luis Andrade,
OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS
2 Transford Ave, Plough Place
London EC4A 1DE.
E-Mail: agent_luis_andrade09@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: 447031973594
Fax/PH: 447092880764
Fax/PH: 447092875166


Remember, all winning in this First category must be claimed not later than 30th of June 2007. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members and staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note that you must contact your fiduciary agent within one week of receipt of this notice.
Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Yours Sincerely,
MRS. GRACE RICHARDSON,
COORDINATOR GENERAL
OVERSEA SUBSCRIBER'S AGENT PROMOTION
1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE
UNITED KINGDOM.
____________________________________________________________________
Copyright ©2007 Microsoft® Lottery Promotions. All rights reserved.




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