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Originally this was a colourful HTML email in blue and red.

The African crooks like using non-profit organisations like International Awareness as a front for their scam or fraudulent messages. I wonder if this will show up as much as Fondation de France has?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Benjamin Lassiter <lassiter.ben@gmail.com>
Date: 2008/10/20
Subject: CALL REV SUNTO JUDE FOR YOUR WINNING SUM
To:

THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS
FROM DR  BENJAMIN  LASSITER
PROMOTION MANAGER
PROMOTION DEPARTMENT UNITED KINGDOM LOTTERY.
22 GARDEN CLOSE, STAMFORD, LINCS, PE9 2YP LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Attention winner you are advice to call 00 44 703 187 0287 after reading this text
!!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.
The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion Department, wishes to congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this years’ International Awareness Promotion (IAP) held on 16th  October, 2008, in London, England.
This makes you the proud winner  of cash prize of £450,000.00 GBP (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British pounds).
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over  a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number: 5647600545188 and serial number: IAWP/556543450906 was randomly selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners.

For you to claim your winning sum, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims Manager,  of our claims department through email, stating your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you assistance and facilitate the urgent payment of your winning sum.

Claims Manager:
Claims Department
Rev Sunto Jude
(revsuntojude2008@yahoo.com)
Tel : 00 44 703 187 0287

VERIFICATION FORM:

1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE…………             FAX:  ……………………
9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
12.) TICKET NUMBER:
13.) SERIAL NUMBER:
14) WINNING SUM:

On behalf of the Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion , congratulations once again

Call Rev  Sunto Jude after you have seen this email for futher details
Sincerely,

DR   BENJAMIN  LASSITER ( PROMOTION MANAGER )

INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION
COPYRIGHT ©2008. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

A short lottery fraud e-mail, but the basics are there.

Here’s another example of using a name with a high trust value for a bogus lottery.

In their quest to find names which can impress people, these crooks have happened upon Mercedes Benz. Of course it’s a name that is well known the world over for quality cars. That’s why they use it here. To give the reader the impression that what they are reading is plausible and true.

The day is not perfect until you have received your regular Microsoft Lottery Prize.

Even if it’s the short form  from South Africa.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Microsoft Online Lottery Game <lottonotification@mtnloaded.co.za>
Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:33 PM

Subject: YOUR EMAIL ID HAVE WON YOU MICROSOFT ONLINE LOTTERY
-YOU HAVE TO CALL YOUR PAYMENT AGENT DIRECT….
To: undisclosed-recipients

Attention,

Your e-mail id was celected through the computer ballot system a winner of our microsoft online lottery program.

You have to contact your claim agent for your payment.

Cliam Agent: Mr. James Zulu
Email: jameszulu@msn.com
Tel/fax : +27 78 555 7877

Forward to him your claim details below;

Ref No.micro234kj20080808
Batch number: msn222
Lucky No: 1 8 13 22 27 38 41
Security code: 676
Amount Won: £1 000 000 00 (one million british pounds)

You have to contact him not later than 3 working days.

One more time congratulations.

Regards,
Dr.Smith Rueben.

Tags: Dr.SmithRueben, Lottery Scam, Microsoft

They don’t actually call it a lottery in this one, but it’s written like the Yahoo & MSN scam e-mails which have been reported often here. Instead of MSN they name Windows Live as the cooperation partner. Looks as though they are modernizing.

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Most of the lottery e-mails claim to be from European lottery
companies. This one, on the other hand, claims to be in the Ivory
Coast. Now, as most of you know, all lottery e-mails are fraudulent.
Lottery companies never, ever send prize announcements per e-mail. So
is this one double suspect?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: agences oranges
Date: 2008/9/6
Subject: !!!!! FÉLICITATIONS !!!!! !!!!! FÉLICITATIONS !!!!!
To: abdoul_005@yahoo.fr

A Votre Aimable Attention,

Nous sommes heureux de vous informer du résultat des
programmes internationaux des gagnants de la loterie tenus il y’a Sept
jours de cela à notre siège sis à Abidjan. Et nous avons le plaisir de
vous annoncez que vous êtes l’un des heureux gagnants de ORANGE
FINANCE WORLD LOTERIE.

Une loterie portant sur les adresses électroniques des internautes du
monde. La valeur du gain est de €5.000 000 Millions D’euros. Votre
adresse a été sélectionnée par tirage informatique lors de notre
premier tirage effectuer la semaine dernière au siège mondial sis aux
États-Unis

Vous avez été donc approuvés pour percevoir la somme forfaitaire hors
taxe de €57.000 Euros.

!!!!! FÉLICITATIONS !!!!! !!!!! FÉLICITATIONS !!!!!

Nous vous demandons de gardez l’information confidentielle de votre
gain jusqu’à la fin de vos réclamations et que les fonds vous soit
remis.

Cela fait partie de notre protocole de sécurité pour éviter une double
réclamation et un abus sans garantie de ce programme par quelques
participants.

Nous tenons à vous prévenir du fait que le lot doit être réclamé avant
deux semaines à compté d’aujourd’hui après quoi tous les fonds non
revendiqués seront reversés à certains Organismes Internationaux de
Santé et de Médecine.

Pour entrer en possession de votre gain. Veuillez adressez
exclusivement par émail a l’avocat chargée de superviser cette loterie
Me DUBOIS DUVALEXa cette adresse:

ÉTUDE DE MAÎTRE DUVALEX
07 B.P 1803 ABIDJAN 35
ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
Email:cabinetmaitreduvalex@yahoo.fr
Note: Qui conque sous l’âge de 19 ans est automatiquement éliminé. En
outre, s’il devrait y avoir n’importe quel changement d’adresse de
votre part, informez nous aussitôt que possible.

Vous aurez le règlement de cette loterie sur notre site internet.

Recevez les félicitations une fois de plus de nos membres du personnel
et nous vous remercions de faire partie de notre programme
promotionnel.

Recevez encore toutes nos félicitations.

Monsieur Yannick BIGOT.
Directeur Marketing
Orange Finance World Loterie
Marcory Zone 1 Immeuble Marie

This one is short and to the point. Could it be more successful than the long messages?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: YAHOO AWARDS & HOTMAIL/WINDOWS LIVE <yahooawards@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:40 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATION.(dr_uvukcoordinator03@live.com)
To:

DEAR WINNER,This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two
Hundredand Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds(GBP 250,000)for 2008 Prize
promotionwhich is organized by YAHOO AWARDS & HOTMAIL/WINDOWS LIVE.You are
requested to contact our co-ordinator with the following
informations;Fullname.Country.Address,mobile Number,Occupation,Sex,Name:
Mr.Druv Matindale Tel+44-703-198-0757 E-Mail:(dr_uvukcoordinator03@live.com)

Tags: DruvMartindale, Lottery Scam

The proposed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft is not yet a reality, but this does not prevent the African crooks from using the company names for a bogus lottery.

The Yahoo/Microsoft combination has been used quite often in the past as our archives show.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: YAHOOMSN AWARD DONATION <info@yahoomsn.com>
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Dear Beneficiary
To: undisclosed-recipients

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation
Baley House, Har Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom .

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling’s for this month Lottery promotion which was organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE. YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

You are to contact the events manager.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number…………………YM 09102XM
Reff number…………………..YM 35447XM
Winning number……………….DTYFM0988
However you will have to fill and submit this form to the events
manager.

1. Full name…………..
2. Contact Address……..
3. Age………………..
4. Telephone Number…….
5. Sex………………..
6. Occupation:…………
7. State………………
8. Country…………….
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail.

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr Robert Henry
E-mail: eventmanager_henry@yahoo.com.hk

Tags: LotteryScam, Yahoo, MSN, Microsoft

There has been a decrease in the numbers of lottery e-mails during the last weeks. I doubt that it means that there is a shift away from that type of scam e-mail. I am sure we will be seeing it in circulation for some time to come.