Ah scam email no 20million of the day!

nikkikayj

Does anyone else get endless emails like this? i found this one funny supposedly being off microsoft and was flagged with the message "Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days." Had a dodgy attatchment on it which I obviously didnt look at

If only it was this easy to win £650k if i got a £1 for every one of these sort of emails I'd probably be a millionaire in a few years!

Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Dr.Helen Gibson
Stamford New Road,
Altrincham Cheshire
WA14 1EP
London.
United Kingdom.
Notification Date: 20/01 /2011

MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held this in London United Kingdom. Where your email address emerged as one of the online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of 650,000.00 {Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling's}.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from each continent of the world wide web drawn from all the continents of the world.

They are arranged in this format below:


CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES


1st. (2) 1.000.000.00 pounds each
2nd. (9) 650,000.00 pounds each
3rd. (13) 450,000.00 pounds each
4th. (27) 350,000.00 pounds each

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you. It is important to note that your award information was released with the following particulars attached to it.

(1) Award numbers: MLAT#2010
(2) Email ticket numbers: 1587-5896-4598-87,
(3) Batch numbers: 850THL#2010
(4) The file reference numbers: MLY-Y/250-450890
(5) Serial Numbers: McST/776/ML10101

For verification purpose be sure to include:

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM-:
1. Full Names:
2. Sex:
3. Age:
4. Marital Status:
5. Nationality:
6. Residential Address: :
7. Occupation:
8. Telephone Number:
9. Fax Number:
10. Have you ever won an Online Lottery ?


Mode of Prize Remittance.

(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to United Kingdom Personally to Pick Your Prize).
(2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other Winning Documents safely to you.


To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this winning notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine working days of winning notification are termed void and invalid. You are required to mention the above particulars of your award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your winning.

***********************************************************
FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
MR. RICHARD SCHOLES
MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
ZONAL COORDINATOR
Email: mrrichardscholesmicroclaimsecuritydeptt@w.cn

***********************************************************

The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies. The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide. The Microsoft Window lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers.

As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the Canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

MICROSOFT DIRECTORATE UNIT
. ZONAL COORDINATOR.

Cezzy

oh well done on your hilarious stalky e-mail, I only have the boring Tara :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

andrew71

I used to do a blog where I would reply to these kinds of emails by telling them I would be happy to send them my details. It went back and forth with me basically taking the pi$$ saying things like could they pay the money into my account monthly but no more than £1000 because I didn't want the HMRC to find out about it and I would be in their area where they were based could they pop it in a jiffy bag near the Tesco in that town.

twelvemonths

Thats funny, I'm sore tempted to reply to these emails for a laugh too. Strangely enough, i've only been getting scam emails since i started comping, i never got them before. Can't believe some people still fall for it though :eek:.

hairbrain05

I get heaps of these everyday too... some of them are amusing but i've never really understood the point of them... are they simply hoping that you'll be stoopid enough to reveal your bank details !?

toontron

Oh I love these emails!! I get about five of these prize ones every day. Today's new one was that I had won £1.6m in a Coca Cola Promo!! LOL!!!