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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: MICROSOFT AWARD TEAM CENTER <dr_marktom@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:04:56 -0700
Subject: RE: MICROWEB VERIFICATION FORM.





MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD

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

REFERENCE NO: BTD/968/07
BATCH NO: 409978


ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM

DEAR WINNER,

MICROWEB CO-OPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORLD LOTTO LOTTERY CONDUCTED IN UNITED KINGDOM BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS.

This is in receipt of your mail. Your email was luckily drawn by a computer balloting system as one of our winners in our experimental lottery bonanza from the prestigous MICROSOFT ONLINE PROMOTION. Thus, making you the winner of the sum of 450,000.00GBP (Four Hundred and fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterlings)and a Laptop 2007 Model Centrino(product hp).
ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES ESPECIALLY FROM YAHOO, HOTMAIL AND COMPANIES EMAILS THROUGH OUR JOINT MICROWEB 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 -WORLD USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE.


WE ALSO WISH TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT YOUR FUND (CERTIFIED CHEQUE) HAS BEEN INSURED WITH YOUR REF NO: BTD/968/07 AND WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY.

REMEMBER, ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ALL FUNDS NOT CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE THE FIXED DATE WILL BE RETURNED AS UNCLAIMED AND DONATED TO CHARITY ORGANIZATION.

AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY CODE MSW/MAR/XX07 TO YOUR CLAIMING OFFICER. THIS IS TO PREVENT SCAM .



TO PROCESS YOUR CLAIMS YOU ARE HEREBY ADVICE TO FILL THIS FORM AND RETURN IT TO MR. MARK TOM IN LONDON, FOR THE FINAL PROCESSING OF YOUR FILE.


NAME........................................................................ADDRESS:.................................................................NATIONALITY:............................................................SEX:..........................................................................AGE:..........................................................................PHONE/MOBILE:........................................................FAX:..........................................................................OCCUPATION:............................................................COMPANY:.................................................................SECURITY CODE........................................................REFERENCE NO:...........................................................
BATCH NO:.................................................................
AMOUNT:....................................................................
COUNTRY:....................................................................

CONGRATULATIONS ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF MICROWEB CO-OPERATION TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS THIS YEAR. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM. OUR SPECIAL THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO BILL GATES OF MICROSOFT AND ALL HIS WEB.ZA ASSOCIATES FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD. WE ALSO HOPE YOU WILL USE THE MONEY WISELY.

SINCERELY,
Mrs. Brunelli Naleen
(Co-coordinator)

(MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK)
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