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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

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Here’s another abandoned, deceased or suspended account just waiting for you to claim it.

Reading the CNN report quoted in this message you will see that there are actually no names of people published in the account. That obviously does away with having to actually write the e-mail about a specific person. This makes it easier to spin his tale.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: emman emeka <onuson88@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Subject: FROM Mr.EMMA EMEKA JNR
To:

Mr.EMMA EMEKA JNR.
Manager of Audit & Acct.Dept.
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA).
COTTONU.BENIN REPUBLIC.
Phone : 00229 77727889.

( READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET)
Greeting, and how are you doing?I hope fine.Please let this my message do not be a surprise to you because I got your informations and lay trust in you before i contacted you.I am the Director incharge OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of Nine million Six hundred thounsand Dollars.($9,600,000.00).This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his completely family.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
I was very fortunate to came across the deceased file when I was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2003-2004 in other to submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes.It is clearly stated in our BANKING FOREIGN POLICY and signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed by the NEXT OF KIN till the period of EIGHT(8) years starting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.Besides,it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of Benin to make the claim of the fund.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.When the fund is transferred into your account,Thirty five PERCENT(35%) will be for you in an assistance and in provision of the bank account,%15 Is set aside for incured expences incured,while Fifty PERCENT (50%) will be for me.and my colleague.

If you are really sure of your intergerity, trustworthy and confidentiality, reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call me as you so that I will let you know the steps to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.I will be waiting for your urgent reply.

My regards to you and your family,
(Mr.EMMA EMEKA JNR)
Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
( BOA BENIN)

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Oh yes, my email address is randomly selected. It and several hundred others …

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Uk Gaming House <gerry_burke@eircom.net>
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:50 AM
Subject: Final Notice !!!
To:

BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
12th April 2008

This email is to notify you that this email address was randomly selected and entered into our free Third Category draws. You have subsequently emerged a winner and therefore entitled to a substantial amount of 552,000.00 Pounds.

For further information, kindly confirm receipt of this email, by forwarding Your Details as states below to our claims department on Email :uk_foreignunit@yahoo.co.uk

INFORMATION REQUESTED:
(a) Your full Name:
(b) Contact address:
(c) Your Telephone and fax numbers:
(d) Your Age:
(e) Your occupation:
(f) Your country of origin:

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,
Award Notification Team
UK GAMING HOUSE

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