Microsoft award scam

xanthe06

not sure if this is the right forum but i recieved this email today it went straight into my emails and not my spam folder so i googled the telephone number and it came up with a website saying that the number came from another country and it has been used in a lottery scam, i use xbox live alot and thought it was from microsoft,

hope this helps others to not be ripped off by these idiots

From:MICROSOFT AWARD (info@microsoft-awards.com) You may not know this sender.[URL="javascript:;"]Mark as safe[/URL]|[URL="javascript:;"]Mark as junk[/URL]Sent:03 February 2010 00:52:29To:
Microsoft Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Long sight,
Manchester M61 2DB - United Kingdom
Tel: +44 131-208-4420
Fax: +44 870-479-1443
daveheathz@fsmail.net

Dear Prize Winner

We're euphoric to inform you that your email address has won an Award of Four Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (400,000.00 GBP) for the 2010 New year Prize promotion organized by MICROSOFT.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS
Yahoo & Windows Live Award must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited as unclaimed prizes.

Stated below is your Award File Information:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/013/APA-43645
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2608312500
PIN: 1611

You are required to send your personal details along with your Award File Information to the programme Assistant Award
Coordinator in the format below. These informations are need to prepare your winning certificate only.

1. Full name:
2. Country:
3. Contact Address:
4. Telephone Number:
5. Marital Status:
6. Occupation:
7. Sex:
8. Date of Birth/Age:
9. Email Address:

Assistant Award Coordinator: Mr. Bratan Petko
Tel: +44 131-208-4420
Fax: +44 870-479-1443
daveheathz@fsmail.net

Congratulations!! On your winning,
Sincerely Yours,
Neola Wilmington
Notification Officer
Winning Notification From Microsoft Awards Centre

NB: Do not reply if you are NOT the intended recipient or owner of this email address; Disregard this notification if you have been notified before.

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Yahoo and Msn Awards Team will not be held liable for any loss of funds arising from the above mentioned.
In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it
from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

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maninthestreet

Looks like they are using a landline, which in unusual for these scams:

+44 131-208-4420

xanthe06

thats what i thought about the phone number but if you google the number or the address it comes up with loads of sites saying its a scam,

Dr.Rock

Yeah, it looks like it's their first attempt at scams. They give a landline number, email address with a proper ISP, and ask for all the wrong info.
Might be worth sending the way of your ISP, Wanadoo (who register fsmail) and the Greater Manchester Police who are notorious jobsworths and always grateful for an excuse to go and knock some heads together.

xanthe06

Dr.Rock wrote: »

Yeah, it looks like it's their first attempt at scams. They give a landline number, email address with a proper ISP, and ask for all the wrong info.
Might be worth sending the way of your ISP, Wanadoo (who register fsmail) and the Greater Manchester Police who are notorious jobsworths and always grateful for an excuse to go and knock some heads together.

are the manchester police really that bad? lol

Dr.Rock

Actually that address doesn't exist and the phone number is an Edinburgh code. It probably doesn't exist or is nothing to do with this. The key element of the scam is that you will provide the details they ask for and after a few more messages back and forth to gain your trust, they ask for bank details which if you give they use to clear your accounts.

xanthe06

is there people who fall for this? wondered why it ended up in my email account and not my spam

pitkin2020

xanthe06 wrote: »

Assistant Award Coordinator: Mr. Bratan Petko
Tel: +44 131-208-4420
Fax: +44 870-479-1443
[EMAIL="daveheathz@fsmail.net"]daveheathz@fsmail.net[/EMAIL]

The email address would have alerted me, why would a massive corporation like microsoft use a third party email address??

C_Mababejive

Oh i ve had this one a while back...

As i live near Manchester,i did some research.

The address relates to a council house on Stockport Rd so you can be sure it isnt Microsofts UK base.

also ,if i remember correctly,,the post code relates to the main post office sorting complex on Oldham Rd,Manchester.

My theory is/was that the person involved in this scam,had access to the mail sort racks for the address and he would intercept incoming mail addressed to that address whilst he worked(?) at the sorting office??

Anyway its an old one and if you google it,you'll see that people all over the word are asking if this address is genuine...!

Words fail me,,how naive...not you of course..the other dimwits)

PS i had a plan to knock on the door with my letter and a video cam to claim my prize just to see what the response was.

I'll bet whoever lives there is mightily sick of it as well...!

peter_the_piper

This post bears repeating as a warning to all newbies who have not come across this one before.

maninthestreet

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Oh i ve had this one a while back...

As i live near Manchester,i did some research.

The address relates to a council house on Stockport Rd so you can be sure it isnt Microsofts UK base.

also ,if i remember correctly,,the post code relates to the main post office sorting complex on Oldham Rd,Manchester.

My theory is/was that the person involved in this scam,had access to the mail sort racks for the address and he would intercept incoming mail addressed to that address whilst he worked(?) at the sorting office??

Anyway its an old one and if you google it,you'll see that people all over the word are asking if this address is genuine...!

Words fail me,,how naive...not you of course..the other dimwits)

PS i had a plan to knock on the door with my letter and a video cam to claim my prize just to see what the response was.

I'll bet whoever lives there is mightily sick of it as well...!

FWIW. Microsoft's UK HQ is in Reading, Berkshire.