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Is this email a scam ?

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I got this email this morning says its from microsoft as i do enter there online draws but i dont know wether this is a scam or not ?:confused:

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Microsoft Award Team Promotion 2008
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.
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WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

This is to inform you that your email has won a consultation prize of the
Microsoft Corporation EMAIL DRAW held 30th of October, 2008. Your email
has won you (£500,000.00GBP) Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds).
To claim your prize, please contact your Fiduciary agent Mr. Adam Smith
with your Batch#: and
Ref#: and contact him via email immediately within 24hrs
with the following details below.

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CERTIFICATE OF PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter).
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1. Full Name...............
2. Country..................
3. Contact Address.......
4. Telephone Number....
5. Fax Number.............
6. Marital Status..........
7. Occupation.............
8. Age......................
9. Sex......................

Contact Your Fiduciary Agent

Mr. Adam Smith.
Head of Microsoft Winning Claims Dept UK .
Email:adams.smith65@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447017463180
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Congratulations from the entire Board of the Microsoft Corporation on
behalf of our Chairman Honorable Mr. Bill Gates.

Yours in Service

Mrs. Marilyn Blandish
Award Promotions Manager
==================================================================================================================
Please do not reply to this email reply only to your fiduciary agent for
the claims of your win.
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YOU WON THIS MICROSOFT ONLINE LOTTERY 2008

Comments

  • dealer_wins
    dealer_wins Posts: 7,334 Forumite
    100% scam.

    They want:

    A. Your personal details to commit ID fraud.
    B. You reply and they advise that there is a "clearance fee" or "tax" you have to pay upfront before they send you the winnings, which of course then never gets sent to you!!
    C. Both the above.
  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Of course it's a scam, it is offering you something..... :confused:


    Microsoft winning claims department using a YAHOO email account PMSL :)
  • cozza
    cozza Posts: 502 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    thank you for leytting me know
    well i just have email microsoft there selfs to get some one to look at it as i think because there are using microsoft as there name isnt this fraud ?
    cozza
  • cozza wrote: »
    thank you for leytting me know
    well i just have email microsoft there selfs to get some one to look at it as i think because there are using microsoft as there name isnt this fraud ?
    cozza

    It sure is but it happens all the time - if it seems too good to be true it probably is.
  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Classic!

    You supposedly win in a Microsoft draw of some sort but the contact has a yahoo.co.uk email address and a +4470 (UK personal number) telephone number!
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • hayley11
    hayley11 Posts: 7,627 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    My MIL's husband fell for a scam like this...he paid them over £1000, everytime he paid them they'd come back asking for more and he did it :confused: They are now £500 behind with their rent and £400 behind with their council tax because he was so stupid, gullible and might I say greedy.

    If somebody is offering you some money but they need money off you first it's always going to be a scam.
    :heart: Think happy & you'll be happy :heart:
    I :heart2: my doggies
  • Markee
    Markee Posts: 187 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    I got a message virtually identical to this from Nokia for an 'end of year giveaway'.

    Scam, defo
  • tripled
    tripled Posts: 2,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    In addition to the points raised above, additional giveaways are:
    • Poor grammar and poor/strange use of English
    • They would have addressed the email to you (if you had entered a competition, they would have your name)
    • A quick search of the name (Mrs. Marilyn Blandish) brings up zip on the Microsoft site, yet on Google brings up several people 'winning' the same lottery and asking if it's a scam
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