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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 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.
  • skylegalchember@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Phuk Rogers" <ukonline@thai.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:11:41 +0700
Subject: Congratulations,





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

REFERENCE NO: UK/9420X2/688

BATCH NO . 074/05/ZY369
WINNER NO: 5

WINNING NOTIFICATION !

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 ASIA BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 14TH, JUNE 2006.


Your Personal E-mail address or Company E-mail is attached to TICKET NUMBERS=564-756-0054-5188, with SERIAL NUMBERS= 5368/02 drew the LUCKY NUMBERS= 052 123 2840 Bonus #26 and consequently won in the Second lottery category,.Therefore you have been approved for lump sums pay of GBP $500,000USD FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND,AMERICAN DOLLARS .
In cash Credited to file REF KTU / 9023118308/03 This is from total prize money of GBP $27,500,000.00 USD, 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 21,000,000 E-mails, 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 after the VIRUS incident in August 1993.

Your fund (certified cheque) has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 and will be ready for delivery or transfer to your Bank A/C Note that, you are to contact your claims officer for the immediate documentations of your AWARD CERTIFICATE as to eneble you collect the fund before the mandate is over.

Please keep your Ref. number and Batch number confidencial, until your award 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 unwarranted abuse of these program by some participant . We hope with little 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 respond with the following INFORMATIONS below..


1 YOUR FULL NAME
2 YOUR ADDRESS AND NATIONALITY
3 YOUR DATE OF BIRTH
4 YOUR OCCUPATION
5 YOUR PHONE/ FAX


Send these as matter of urgency to Global Trust Finance Accredicted Attorney Mr Steven Chung for the immediate processing of your award certificate . E-mail skylegalchember@excite.com

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 24TH JULY 2006. all funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organizations in ASIA.

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,

Mrs. Halima Ibrahim Ali Mrs. Caro Smith
(Co-ordinator). ( Secretary )


LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;
MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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