Lottery fraud is one of the fastest growing and most threatening forms of Internet crime. Lottery fraud is the best known form of Advance Fee Fraud (AFF), a crime in which the victim is deceived into paying money in advance for a fictitious gift or cash prize.
Lottery fraud already costs consumers around the world millions of dollars every year. Now there are concerns that criminals will increase fraudulent activity to take advantage of people who are concerned with or affected by the global economic downturn.
To help prevent this victimization, Microsoft has formed an alliance with other companies that are affected by lottery fraud to gather and analyze data on lottery fraud victims across the world. Microsoft will provide this intelligence to global law enforcement agencies to prosecute criminals who commit these kinds of fraud.
If you have lost money to a Microsoft lottery fraud, please help us to address the problem by telling your local police authority and providing a copy of the crime report to Microsoft.
You can send a copy of your crime report or the crime reference number to the following dedicated, Microsoft e-mail address: lotfraud@microsoft.com. Or you can mail details to Microsoft at this address:
Report Lottery Fraud
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
Microsoft is committed to increase Internet security for all users.
 | What is the Microsoft Lottery Fraud? Well known and respected company brands are often abused by scammers who want to add credibility or authenticity to their e-mail messages. As a result, Microsoft customers might receive e-mails that them they have won a prize in the "The Microsoft Lottery." There is no such thing as a Microsoft Lottery. These e-mails are attempts to start a dialogue with you with the sole intention of tricking you out of money. These e-mail messages do not come from Microsoft or represent Microsoft in any way. |
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 | What is Microsoft doing to help stop lottery fraud? Microsoft has formed an alliance with other companies whose brands and services are abused by lottery fraud. The alliance will collect information from lottery fraud victims and use this data to investigate lottery fraud crime and work with law enforcement to help stop it. |
Read more about how Microsoft is helping to stop lottery fraud.
 | How can you help stop lottery fraud? Report it. If you've been a victim of the Microsoft lottery scam, we strongly urge you to report the crime to your national law enforcement agency and to send us a copy of the crime report. Microsoft will group the police reports together by contact details and identify the criminals through technical analysis and legal procedures. Microsoft will send information about the criminal identities as well as the police reports to the law enforcement agency in the country where the criminals reside.
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