Advance Fee Fraud: Euro Millions Lottery

Better known as "El Fraudo Lottery". Today's tall tale of unsolicited riches comes from Spain. This particular 419er is using the approach of harvesting email addresses off web pages -- a fact made obvious by the fact that the same computer which performs the web request also sends the mail, and the fact that the addresses so harvested were all harvester-bait anyway. Four of my spam-traps received exactly the same notification of winnings from 62.175.6.72 (rDNS points to B-72-6-ADSL.red.retevision.es, but no such name exists) on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:24:47 -0000. Four random addresses that all won a million euros on exactly the same ticket? Wow, what are the chances? Answer: 100% -- of it being a scam.

This one is funny, though, because the lottery "was promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates,President of Microsoft, the world's largest software company in order to enhance and promote the use of Internet Explorer Users and microsoft-wares around the globe." Sure it's a blatant lie, but there's some great irony in it.

EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782:
RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions Lottery
Winners,an International E-mail program held on the 2nd of Dec. 2004. Your
E-mail address fall to the ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main
number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which
consequently won in the 2nd category of this program, you have  therefore
been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1.000.000.00 Euro.(One Million Euros)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning
informations confidential until your claims has been processed and your money
remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from
all over the world.
This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates,President of Microsoft,
the world's largest software company in order to enhance and promote the use
of Internet Explorer Users and microsoft-wares around the globe.
This promotional program takes place every three years.We hope that, with
part of your winning, you will take part in our end of year 50 million Euro
International lottery.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiducial agent:
MR.JUAN CALOS
(EUROCREDIT & SECURITY)
TEL:0034-678-855-871
Email:eurocreditscrty@yahoo.com
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 31th APRIL 2005.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next 
stake.Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all
correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform
our agent as soon as possible
.Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.
Sincerely yours,
MR, FERNANDO SANCHEZ
Lottery Coordinator.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified