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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: MICRO SOFT PROMOTION <mslotto_404@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 01:52:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON GBP 7,500,000.00 IN THE MICROSOFT PROMO




FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM61-70 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.

REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH NO: 2005SEPTL#22

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER:UNITED KINGDOM




WINNING NOTIFICATION !


We the MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you of the today's winners of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 2ND, AUGUST 2007.

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5 July -2007-02MSW, with serial number S/N-00101 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-765-37-10-64, and consequently won in the first lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of GBP ?7,500,000.00 ( (Seven Million, Five hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash Credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/200-26677 this is from total prize money of GBP 30,500,000.00 POUNDS, 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 25,000 Names, 3,600,000 names 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.
Your E-mail address should be used in all correspondence with your claims officer, please Note that, you are to contact your claims officer via email and phone as we are promoting the use of E-mail. Also you have the right to call him to confirm your winnings, as he will provide you with the necessary details on how to claim your prize.

You are to keep your ref. number and batch number from the public, until you 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 scamming people of their ref number and prizes. We hope with a 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 contact our African claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you.

To file for your claim and avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you are to contact our agent, and remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with Diplomat Alex Hopkins (Esq.) Email: dip_hopkins@yahoo.com with the following details bellow.


YOUR FULL NAMES:.. ...................................
YOUR SEX:..............................................
YOUR ADDRESS:............................................
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER:....................
YOUR FAX NUMBER:....................................
YOUR OCCUPATION:....................................
YOUR COMPANY'S NAME:..........................
YOUR AGE:...............................................
BANK NAME.................................................
BANK ADDRESS...........................................


A COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT,DRIVERS LICENCE OR ANY GOVERNMENT ID OR COMPANY ID

Diplomat Alex Hopkins (Esq.)
Email; dip_hopkins@yahoo.com
Tel; +44 7045745257

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 alleviating poverty round the World.
Sincerely,




Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Carol Smith
(Coordinator). (Secretary)


LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.

Past winners.




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