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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:
  • "20 craven park, harlesden" (address often used in lottery scams)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • +447045731685 (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.
  • microsoftedition2007@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MICROSOFT AWARD 2007 <newedition-mcro_soft2007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <microsoft_edition_07@excite.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:54:55 -0600
Subject: MICROSOFT AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION 2007













Microsoft Promotion Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdom
Ref: Mcs/968/678/123/#9Batch:Mcs/989/989/#34

Dear lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION.

The prestigious Micrsoft and aol has set out and sucessfully organised an award promotion for the month of may/june 2007.We rolled out over £5,000,000.00 (Five Million Great Britain Pounds) for this week's 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 through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses . If you ignore this,you might regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest software and Internet service 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 beta test for every week of the month of MAY/JUNE 2007. Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to e-number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew with our winning lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 Lucky winners in this draw,you have therefore won the entire winning sum of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).The electronic draws registered as Draw number three was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 1st of May 2007.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.Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of your proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programe.Please be warned.

FIDUCIARY AGENT.
Mr. Glen Johnson
Microsoft Promotion Award TeamEmail:microsoftedition2007@excite.com
Phone:+44-704-573-1685
Fax: +44-704-573-1685
You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with all details as regards your claim.









Upon the reciept of the duelly filled claims form, our lawyer will notify the British Gaming Board (BGB), so as to give approval to our official promo courier delivery and deplomatic company/bank,the permission to make the delivery/bank transfer of your won Amount/winning certificate. You should send us your personal contact phone number so the courier company/bank can contact you by phone and email.
Thank you for being part of this promotional award programe. Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and associates,Yahoo Uk and Aol out top sponsors.We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being part of our commemorative 2007 year Draws.
Sincerely,Dr.John maxwell
Microsoft Promotion Team
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