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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Olivia malik" <olivia.malik-3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <joelfaisal@walla.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:15:09 +0000
Subject: MICROSOFT ELECTRONIC E-MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION




FROM THE DESK OF E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY MADRID,SPAIN. Reference No:MSW-L/327015002/0­7 BATCH NO: 2007JAN#414 WINNER NO: 27 ELECTRONIC E-MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: MADRID SPAIN. Dear Winner, Microsoft Co-operation Management Worldwide are pleased to inform you today 9th July,2007. that you are a winner of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in Africa being the host of the event for this present year MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAM held on the 5th of January, 2007. Your email address was attached to ticket number 214-056-278 with serial number s/n-01025 and drew the lucky numbers 724-595-62-07-45 and consequently won in the 3rd category. As a result of this , you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of US$1,000,000:00 (One million united states dollars) payable in cash credited to file Reference No:MSW-L/327015002/07 . This is from total prize money of US$50,000,000 (Fifty million united states dollars) shared among thirty lucky international winners in this category. All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from a collation of frequent internet users all over the world from America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, as part of International Email Promotions Program, which is conducted annually to encourage the use of internet and computers worldwide. Your fund (Cashier's cheque) has been insured with your Reference No: MSW-L/327015002/07 and will be ready for delivery but in order for your cheque to be issued and insured in your name and for you to begin your claim you are urgently required to provide the following information through email to Mr.Joel Faisal, Foreign Service Manager, Madrid,Spain. (joelfaisal@walla.com} 1) Your full names 2)Your full home / office address 3)Nationality 4)Direc­t Land/Mobilephone/fax­ numbers 5) Occupation / Age 6) Sex 7) Next of kin 8) Amount won 9) Lottery date 10)Valid e-mail. Please note that above detailed information will be absolutely neccessary for the processing of your payment cheques,drafts or wire transfers. Also this winning is valid for THREE WEEKS and failure to issue claims after this period will automatically void your payment. Remember to quote your ticket number, serial number and lucky number in your future correspondence and most importantly as part of our security protocol you are to quote this security code :MSW/JAN/SSW07 to the Foreign Service Manager, this is to prevent scam. Congratulations­ once again from the entire management and staff of Microsoft Corporation to all our lucky winners this year and thank you for being part of this Promotional lottery Program. Our special thanks and gratitude goes to Bill Gates of Microsoft and all his associates for alleviating poverty around the world through this promotion.

SINCERELY,




Mrs.Olivia Malik .(PROMOTIONS MANAGER).


LOTTERY SPONSORS : CHIEF SPONSORS;MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION,MADRID SPAIN. MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA .
Past winners.






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