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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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Fraud email example:
From: "MSW LOTTERY AWARD UNIT" <mswloto2009@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 07:14:33 -0700
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATIONS!!!!_YOU_HAVE_WON_LOTTERY_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?PRIZE_FROM_MICROSOFT_COMPANY(=A3800,000.00)?=
*<http://uk.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12qoib2gg/M=200072019.201266245.202581648.200683327/D=ukmail/S=150508014:MWA1/Y=UKIE/EXP=1158064454/A=200544639/R=0/SIG=11004g6h5/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/>
FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH NO: 2008 SEPTEMBER L#22
WINNER NO: 5
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: AFRICA
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 AFRICA BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT
LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON THE 4th OF SEPTEMBER 2008.HOWEVER THE RESULTS
WERE RELEASED ON THE 5th OF SEPTEMBER,2008.
Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5
JULY L-2007-02MSW, with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky
numbers887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first lottery
category. You
have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of GBP
£800,000.00 (Eight hundred 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<http://www.yahoo.com/>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. *
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NAME: PROF AHMED WAHEED
EMAIL: mswp <mswpaymentofficeaward_208@yahoo.co.uk><mswpaymentofficeaward_208@yahoo.co.uk>
aymentofficeaward_208@yahoo.co.uk <mswpaymentofficeaward_208@yahoo.co.uk>
+234 803 441 8060.
YOU HAVE TO CONTACT YOUR PAYMASTER WITH THE MICROSOFT WINNER'S
APPLICATION/VERIFICATION FORM OF PAYMENT PROCESSING
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