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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447031930006 (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.
  • micheal_dowdclaimsagent1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "notice dept" <noticedept@blueworld.co.za>
Reply-To: terry_cambell77@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:35:53 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON UK MICROSOFT LOTTERY


UK MICROSOFT JACKPOT LOTTERY



REF NO: MSW/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 Jenuary 5th, 2007. Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to winning number 11-48-26-34-44-34, 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 Europe Zone,and hence you are to be paid by our European Payment Centre.

You have been approved for lump sums pay out of £850,000,000 British Pounds Sterling in Certified Cheque Credited to File REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number {11 48 26 26 34 44} 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(11 48 26 26 34 44) To claim your winning prize,contact the Claims Payment Officer by email below for remittance of your prize to you.

FUDICIARY AGENT.
MICROSOFT CLAIMS DEPARTMENT

Email: micheal_dowdclaimsagent1@yahoo.co.uk

Handling Officer: Mr. Micheal Dowd

Contact Phone Number:+447031930006



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)



NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO INCLUDE ALL THE DATA BELOW WHEN CONTACTING THE PAYMENT AGENT:

1.FullName:............................................................

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

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

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

5.Age:.........................

Date of Birth:............................

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

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


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

9Your File Ref No: ...............................................

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







Dr.MONICA SHAGAYA Mrs. Maurrine H. Diane
Online Co-ordinator Secretary


LOTTERY SPONSOR
Microsoft Corporation U.K.

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