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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "microsoft lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: rewards mctray <rewards_00@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <rewards00@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:51:55 +0000
Subject: You have won............ Microsoft euro lottery
















MICROSOFT EURO LOTTERY PROGRAMME INC.





THE MICROSOFT EURO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL


Finally today, we announce the winners of the MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on Monday, April 1st, 2007. Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100, with serial number 647489, consequently won in the Tenth lottery category.
You have been approved for lump sums pay out of $2,500,000 USD in cash Credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. Selection process was carried out through random selection 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 an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
No ticket was sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage our prominent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world. This is to encourage users to Continues the use of E-mail and non users to try and use emails.

Your fund has been deposited with the paying bank with your REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. To claim your winning prize, you should contact the paying bank by email for Processing and remittance of your winning funds to you.

The Claims Processor: Name: Mrs. Sandra Moore

MICROSOFT LOTTERY PROGRAMME APPLICATION FORM.





FILL THIS FORM AND RETURN IT TO ME FOR EASY DOCUMENTATION, PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF YOUR WIN PRIZE.




NOTE : IT IS REQUIRED YOU CLICK THE REPLY BUTTON BEFORE FILLING OUT THIS FORM, AS ALL INPUTED DATA MAY BE LOST UPON OUR RECEPTION. IN THE EVENT THAT YOUR BROWSER SETTING DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM e.g html program, YOU ARE TO SEND THE REQUIRED DATA IN PLAIN TEXT FORMAT.






Please fill in the appropriate information in the space below:
WINNER'S APPLICATION FORM FOR PAYMENT. WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA First Name.: Middle Name.: Last Name.:
Gender.:
Month Of Birth.:
Marital Status.: Nationality.: Religion.: Occupation.:
Home Address 1.: Office Address 2.: City.: State/Province.: Zip Code.:
Mobile phone No.: House Phone No.: Fax No.: Email Address.:


This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me.

Yes: No:



MICROSOFT EURO LOTTERY COPYRIGHT 2007 ALL RIGHT RESERVED
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