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It looks as though a lot of the Africans are using Microsoft’s Hotmail service at live.com these days.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Dr.George Owen.
Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Transfer Of $35.5m?
To:

From: Dr. George Owen.
I am Dr.George Owen, Director of Project , South Africa Department of Minerals and Energy. I am making this contact with you based on the Committee need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer.

This amount $35.5m represents the balance of the total contract Value Executed on behalf of Department mineral resources and Energy by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid.

Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 25% of the $35.5million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us commence,provide your personal telephone/fax number . Contact me through my alternative e-mail address: gowen011@gmail.com
Best Regards,
Dr.George Owen.
Tel:+27 787048899

Dr. George Owen, South Africa

Tags: 5m, Africans, Committee Need, Contract Value, Contracting Firm, Department Mineral Resources, Department Of Minerals And Energy, Dr George, Dr. George Owen, E Mail Address, Fax Number, George Owen, Hotmail Service, Individual Company, Microsoft, Minerals And Energy, Money Transfer, Personal Telephone, South Africa, Taxation, Telephone Fax

This one is just plain Microsoft, without Yahoo or MSN this time.

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From: Mr.Morgan Luke. Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Subject: WINNINGS NOTIFICATION
To:

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to notify you the draw (007) of the MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL WINNINGS PROGRAMS,Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on 24TH of AUGUST, 2008.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from all over the world.

The result of our computer draw (#978) selected your name and email address attached to e-ticket number:MSW56475600545 188 with Serial number MSW5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:03.15.16.19.20.24 (26 Bonus Ball), which subsequently won you the lottery in the
2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £245,000.00GBP,(Two Hundred And Fourty-Five Thousand Pounds).
In cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

You are to contact the fiduciary agent stated below who will process your winnings.
Mr.Morgan Luke.
Email: morgan_luke2@live.com
+447045721915

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
MR.Terry Moore
CHIEF SPONSORS;
MICROSOFT CO-OPERATIONS UK

Microsoft, Lottery Fraud, Morgan Luke

Tags: Ballot System, Bonus Ball, E Ticket, Email Programs, Fiduciary Agent, Fourty Five, International Lottery, Lottery Fraud, Lottery International, Lottery Program, Lottery Programs, Lottery Winnings, Lucky Numbers, Microsoft, Microsoft Email, Microsoft Lottery, Morgan Luke, Mr Morgan, Online Lottery, Serial Number, Thousand Pounds, Ticket Number, Uk Lottery

This is a favourite combination for the lottery fraud e-mails.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mrs.Marcelino Hull <mrs.marcelino_hull@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Batch number………………..YM 09102XN
To: undisclosed-recipients

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

This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain
Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for this month
2008 Lottery promotion which is 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 the internet,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 on
or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be
paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no
later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification
after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number………………..YM 09102XN
Reff number…………………..YM35447XN
Winning number……………….YM09788

These numbers fall within your Location file,
you are requested to contact the events
manager, send your winning identification
numbers to him,to enable him verify your
claims.How ever you will have to fill and submit
this form to the events manager for verification
& direction on how you can claim your winning
fund.

1. Full name…………..
2. Contact Address……..
3. Age……………….
4. Telephone Number…….
5. Marital Status………
6. Sex………………..
7. Zip Code…………..
8. Occupation………….
9. Company……………
11.State:……………..
12.Country……………
13.Nationality…………
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name: MR. WALLTER SCOTH
E-mail: mr.wallter_scoth12@hotmail.com
TEL: +44-702-4053-243
+44-702-4087-250

Thank you and Accept my hearty
congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Marcelino Hull
(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

Tags: Balloting System, Batch Number, Britain Pound, Contact Address, Greater London, Har, Hundred Thousand, Lottery Corporation, Lottery Fraud, Lottery Prize, Marcelino, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Prize Money, Sm1, Sutton Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom, Undisclosed Recipients, Winning Number, Yahoo, Yahoo Co Uk, Yahoo Lottery, Yahoo Msn, Ym

Whoever came up with that name?

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From: Jerry Freeman <gerryfreeman@eircom.net>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!CONTACT CLAIMS OFFICE.
To:

National Postcode Lottery

Attn: Winner

We bring to your notice the winning letter from Nationale Postcode Lottery {United Kingdom Promotion Company} held on the 8th of August, 2008 through Internet ballot System among 10,000 Microsoft users.

Subsequently, your email address attached to ticket number 24.2.6.37.15.45 won contract sum of 800,000.00 Pounds ,winning number 100364,ref number 00786.We request you to pay serious attention to this notification by contacting the claims department with claim information and procedures of claim.

Mr. Williams Brown
Tel: +44-871-794-2686
Fax: +44-7006-090-400
Email:unityfinance@sify.com

Congratulations once again from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours Sincerely,
Jerry Freeman
National Postcode Lottery

Tags: Ballot System, Contract Sum, Fri, Jerry Freeman, Lottery Winner, Lt, Microsoft, Microsoft Users, National Lottery, National Postcode Lottery, Postcode, Promotion Company, Ref Number, Sify Com, Ticket Number, United Kingdom, Williams Brown, Winning Number

They don’t get shorter than this, do they?

As you can see, Google has already marked this one as suspicious. Which it most definitely is.

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From: MICROSOFT AWARDS &lt;info_lotteryboard15x@comcast.net&gt;
Date: Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Subject: WINNER!!!
To:

Your email address has won you: £1,000,000.00. To file for your claim kindly Contact your claims agent through his email address, Ray Howard, Email: officemail_rayhoward@yahoo.co.uk
Technorati-Tags: Lottery Scam, Microsoft

Tags: Amp, Comcast, E Mail, Email Address, Google, Lottery Scam, Lt, Microsoft, Microsoft Lottery, Microsoft Mail, Ray Howard, Sun, Technorati Tags, Uk Lottery, Yahoo, Yahoo Co Uk

All of these companies are regularly misused for lottery scams. Basically the crooks are using the brand names to try and achieve a higher trust factor.

Trust is a very hard thing to gain online. And as the crooks are not in a position to provide their own trust factor, they use the names of well know companies and public persons to lull potential victims into believing what they are offering is an honest offer or, as in this case lottery company.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MSN AWARD TEAM &lt;paulsmiths_uk@yahoo.co.uk&gt;
Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Subject: MSN AWARD TEAM
To:

–

Msn Award Team
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.
Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref:MSN-Y/101OXI/02

Hello Winner

Congratulations to you, we bring to your notice the result of YAHOO LOTTERY WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO & MICROSOFT WINDOWS. We are happy to inform you that your your email address in addition to millions of company and individual email addresses were extracted with a software and the addresses were scrutinized with a ballot system and after the process, 100 email addresses were selected and they were shared into 5 categories respectively and which you are a winner in the 3rd category of (500.000.00GBP) .Be informed that your cash donation has a hardcover insurance policy that makes it impossible to make any deduction of any kind, until the sum is finally credited into your designated account.

NOTE: Please contact the claims department With the following information.
1.Full name…………
2.Country…………..
3.Contact Address……..
4.Telephone Number…….
5.Marital Status………
6.Occupation………….
7.Age………………..

Mr. Daniel Moore
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
PHONE:+44 794 679 1342
EMAIL:msnawardteam12@jmail.co.za
Technorati-Tags: MSN, Microsoft, Yahoo, lottery scam

Tags: Ballot System, Cash Donation, Contact Address, Daniel Moore, Email Addresses, Fri, Jmail, Lottery Company, Lottery Scam, Lottery Scams, Microsoft, Mr Daniel, MSN, Own Trust, Paulsmiths, Potential Victims, Public Persons, Sm1, Sutton Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom, Technorati, Yahoo, Yahoo Co Uk, Yahoo Lottery Scam, Yahoo Mail

A lottery crook comments on Crime Online

This morning I was notified of a comment waiting for moderation. The poster calls himself Dr. Evan Williams. he must have gotten that name from a bottle of whiskey.

The funny thing about this comment, was the fact that he said it was the bad victims who couldn’t reach the claiming requirements and complained they didn’t get any money.

Isn’t it shame there are so many bad people about these days?

Seriously, this must be an all time first. At least it is on Crime Online.

A 419/Lottery crook comments on an anti fraud website.

That must be the joke of the day!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: WordPress
Date: Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Subject: [Crime Online] Please moderate: “Microsoft Promotion Lottery”
To:

A new comment on the post #367 “Microsoft Promotion Lottery” is waiting for your approval
http://crime-online.info/2006/03/microsoft-promotion-lottery/

Author : Dr. Evan Williams
E-mail : claimlot@aim.com
URL :
Comment:
This prize is real and those people complaning could not meet up with the claiming requirement for this prize hence they began to blacklist our organisation in other to deprive others from benefitting from this golden opportunity.

Tags: Aim, Bottle Of Whiskey, E Mail, Evan Williams, Fraud, Funny Thing, Golden Opportunity, Joke Of The Day, Lottery, Microsoft, Microsoft Promotion, Moderation, Money, Online Lottery, Poster, Shame, Url

Somehow I get the impression that the Africans often don’t understand what they are putting together for fraudulent e-mails like this one.

Sure, Microsoft and Vodafone may cooperate on a business basis, but State Lotteries such as the Dutch Staatsloterij don’t cooperate with any sort of company on the scale suggested here.

One point of note is the e-mail address. Do you see they are using voda-fone.org?

This is unusual, as the owner can be traced. Even though the Registrant is using a cloaking service to hide behind, authorities such as police can force the service company to disclose the person behind the Domain name. Here’s the registry data:

Domain ID:D152496806-LROR
Domain Name:VODA-FONE.ORG
Created On:21-Apr-2008 23:44:30 UTC
Last Updated On:21-Apr-2008 23:44:35 UTC
Expiration Date:21-Apr-2009 23:44:30 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (R27-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:ADDPERIOD
Registrant ID:PP-SP-001
Registrant Name:Domain Admin
Registrant Organization:PrivacyProtect.org
Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 97
Registrant Street2:All Postal Mails Rejected, visit Privacyprotect.org
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Moergestel
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code:5066 ZH
Registrant Country:NL
Registrant Phone:+45.36946676
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:contact@privacyprotect.org

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From: VODAFONE AWARD CENTRE <vodafoneawardoffice@voda-fone.org>
Date: 2008/4/29
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !! YOUR E-MAIL ID HAS WON VODAFONE CONSOLATION PRIZE 2008.
To:

VODAFONE INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2008
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSE!!!
VODAFONE INTERNATIONAL LOTTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).

Ref No: Ref No: VDF-EBS-719AF
Batch Number: VDF-EBS-390AF
Winning Number: VDF-EBS-798AF
Coupon No. VDTL-146478972197

Dear Email Bearer,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!

Vodafone private international e-games organizers and  Co-sponsors,  MICROSOFT/ STAATSLOTERIJ officially bring to your notice of the final  draw result of 2008 VODAFONE MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ wheel E-game which  was conducted at our international corporate office complex in London.

Most recently this foundation set up the VODAFONE LOTTERY SCHEME to give  out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation  seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.  It major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literature projects in  the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as  science, research, and higher education. We wish to Congratulate and  inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was  selected among the 5 lucky consolation prize winners.

Your email ID identified with Coupon No. VDTL-146478972197 was selected  by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the  50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID  was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our  partner international email provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of Ј600,000.00 ( Six Hundred  Thousand British Pounds Only).The VODAFONE, MICROSOFT/STAATSLOTERIJ Group  have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be  remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and  provide additional information and processes for the claims of your  consolation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please  contact your claims Agent Rev. Father John Palenberg who has been  assigned to assist you.

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT:

Name: Rev. Father John Palenberg
E-mail:claimsdepartment@voda-fone.org
Telephone :+447024077935

You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Name:
Phone/Fax Number:
Nationality:
Marital Status:
Age:
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
Winning Number:
Coupon Number:

MEANS OF PAYMENT
Cheque Delivery
Bank Account Transfer
Diplomation Means

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your Consolation prize  winning, we hope you will partake in our Forth coming VODAFONE,  MICROSOFT/ STAATSLOTERIJ Email-games.

Regards,
(Group Coordinator)

NB: In accordance with the VODAFONE, MICROSOFT/STAATSLOTERIJ E-games  policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only  the 5 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains  information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise  legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose  email address attached to the lucky numbers along with the winning  information, you are not authorized to read, print, retain copy or  disseminate this notice or any part of it.

Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Vodafone Lottery Award Inc.UK

Tags: Africans, Batch Number, Business Basis, Consolation Prize, Data Protection Act, Domain Admin, Domain Id, E Mail Address, Lotttery, Mail Id, Microsoft, Name Domain, Phone Ext, Registrant Id, Registrant Name, Staatsloterij, State Lotteries, Vdf, Voda Fone, Vodafone, Winning Number

This one was tagged as suspicious by Google.

You can see it’s about the shortest scam e-mail which has ever arrived here. I don’t think you can make them shorter. The question is, would anyone actually believe this came from Microsoft?

It seems there is a real Ray Howard too

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MICROSOFT AWARDS
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:36 AM
Subject: WINNER!!!
To:

Your email address was drawn Winning prize: £1,000,000.00. To file for your claim kindly Contact your claims agent Mr Ray Howard with your: Full names, Age, Phone #, Country, Occupation, Sex, Home address, through the email address below.
Email: officemail_rayhoward@yahoo.co.uk

Tags: Address Email, E Mail, Email Address, Email Uk, Email Yahoo, Full Names, Google, Home Address, Mail Image, Microsoft, Microsoft Lottery, Microsoft Mail, Mr Ray, Occupation, Ray Howard, Sex Email, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Yahoo Co Uk, Yahoo Uk