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LukeT

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My girlfriend received this email today and it looks suspect just wanted to check to see if anyone had received anything similar...

Microsoft Award International Team
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.
Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref:MSN-L/200-26937

Dear Prize Winner

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of five hundred
thousand pounds(£500,000) for the month of March 2008 Lottery
promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO
& MICROSOFT WINDOWS,collects all the email addresses of the people
that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and
Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winnerapplying,we congratulate
you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact your Claims Agent with immediate effect to faciliate
the protocol of your winning prized before the date of Claim,Winners
Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre Prize must
be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after
the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within
this period will be forfeited.These are your identification numbers:

Batch number...................12/25/0340
Reff number.......................Ref:MSN-L/200-26937
Winning number...................********

To begin your claim please contact our licensed and accredited agent
assigned to you

MR. Gordon Pell
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44703-190-8701

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the
claims agent to facilitate them and in order for them
to have access in proceeding with the tranaferred of your funds to your
nominated bank account.

1. Full name............
2. Country..............
3. Contact Address........
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Occupation.............
7. Company..............
8. Age....................

Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of
Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,

Mrs. Daina Wuff
(Operation Manager)
 
half a mill = immediate fake, for that much you'd get someone at your door + registered letter + they'd demand a receipt in person.

Also surely the Microsoft lottery would be well published, if they where giving out 2.5 mill every moth, without having to apply?
 
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of five hundred
thousand pounds(£500,000) for the month of March 2008 Lottery
promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO
& MICROSOFT WINDOWS,collects all the email addresses of the people
that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and
Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winnerapplying,we congratulate
you for being one of the people selected.

I apologise for sounding rude, but if you can read the paragraph above and not think to yourself "Something here is not quite right" then you deserve to get ripped off.
 
my rule is if you didn't willingly enter a prize draw, treat it as a scam even if there is real money to be had, that way you shouldn't fall for any no matter how genuine it could look
 
if you send me your bank details + £50 i will confirm its a scam and that you havent really won £500k
 
GD Quality said:
“Is This A Scam” Threads

If you have to ask it probably is. Don’t click on links you don’t feel right about. Never enter personal data through anything but the main site and never download anything you haven’t requested. It’s t’internet 101!
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