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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary 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 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.
  • +447024080951 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447030402517 (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.
  • microsoft.promo@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: 2007 Microsoft On-Line Promo <info_promo00@o2.pl>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:22:29 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION(Microsoft )

Microsoft Award Promo

43 Wilson Ave, Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom

Ref: BTD/876/03

Batch: 653978E

29th January 2007

 

 

Dear Winner,

 

WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

 

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL  has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking this year 2007 anniversary we rolled out over 10,000.000.00 GBP(Ten million Great Britain Pounds) for this year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

 

The selection was made randomly from World Wide Web site through a computer draw system extracted from over 100,000 individuals and companies, attaching email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail better test.

 

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 005493262748 with serial numbers BTD/890578302/04 and drew the lucky numbers 15-22-27-38-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 1,000,000.00 GBP(One Million Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the sum of 1,000,000.00 GBP(One Million Great Britain Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 29th of January 2006. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

 

Please be informed by this winning notification, to file your claims, you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize. To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent

 

Mr. Georg Stiller

Tel: +447024080951 

Fax: +44 703 040 2517

 

Email:microsoft.promo@k.ro

Microsoft Promotion Award Team

          

contact him, please provide him with your secret pin code msl8pwyz2007 and You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible:
 

 

 Claims Requirements:

 

1.Your Full Name:__________________________

2.Address:_________________________________

3.Phone/Fax numbers:_______________________

4.Sex:_____________________________________
5.Nationality:_____________________________
6.Maritual Status:_________________________
7.Age:_____________________________________
8.Next Of Kin:_____________________________
9.Occupation:______________________________
10.Present Country:________________________
11.Amount won:_____________________________

12.Ticket Numbers:_________________________

13.Batch Number:___________________________

14.Serial Number:__________________________

15.Lucky Numbers:__________________________ 

 

 Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.

 

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates, we wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune. Thank you for being part of our commemorative this year Anniversary Draws.

 

Sincerely,

Mrs.Monica Harrison

Microsoft Promotion Team

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