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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:38:28 -0700 (PDT)


From: "kenny paul" %26lt;kennypaulsam00049@yahoo.com%26gt; Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert


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Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON LOTTERY PRIZ E FUND(拢5,500,000.00)


To: rift_me@yahoo.com, ayu_tea2000@yahoo.com




















FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE


AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY


UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,


Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.





REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937


BATCH NO: 2005SEPTL#22


WINNER NO: 5





ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION


AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM














WINNING NOTIFICATION !








Dear Sir/ Madam,





We the MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you of the today鈥檚 winners of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in AFRICA BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 9th MARCH .2006.





Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5 MARCH.-2006-09MSW, with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay ofGBP 拢5,500,000.00 ( (Five Million, Five hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash Credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/200-26937 this is from total prize money of GBP 27,500,000.00 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 21,000 Names, 3,000 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 fund (certified cheque) has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 and will be ready for delivery. It will be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster Staff in charge of African zone ( PROF . DAN ALEX ). 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 and government tax payment that is all, 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 first contact our African claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you.





THE PAYMASTER OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:





PROF . DAN ALEX


(PAYMASTER)


E-MAIL : kenny-barrister@yahoo.com





TELL: 2348066742057





Fax: 234-8033355514








Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 17 augst. 2006. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organization in Africa.





NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. Do not reply any other mails like this on net, as they are a lot of scam artist out there pretending to be us. You may see mails like this do not reply. Do contact your claims officer ( PROF . DAN ALEX).At once you will be asked to provide some details to enable the office proceed with your winning certificate and file keeping.





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 alliviating poverty round the World.








Sincerely,











Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Caro Smith


(Co-ordinator). ( Secretary )











LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;





MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,


MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.





Past winners.
Anybody knows about email with this subject : Subject: INFORMATION ABOUT MS-WORD LOTTERY AND HOW YOU WON ..?
It is a scam.





You cannot have an international lottery as the gambling laws differ in every country.


The scammers say it is "International" so as to cover every country.


If you want to check a email you think might be a scam go to www.scamomatic.com


Lotterys work like this:


1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc


The lottery company now has 10,000





2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)





Scams work like this:


-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)





0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)





2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)





3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)





4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )





5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com


Everything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)





The moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is


havea look at www.fraudwatchers.org
Reply:Its a scam.


"kenny paul" wont be sending you notification from a yahoo address. They want information from you.


If you reply, just out of curiosity, they will put you on an "idiot" list and make money later by selling the list to other scammers.


They get no response from the Wise
Reply:its a scam


tell them nothing