Funny, Microsoft located in Washington USA, has a UK Sweepstakes and you
have to email browniejames@yahoo.com a Yahoo.com person. Come on people,
make it even slightly believable!
The scam part will of course be that you either need to wire money for the
taxes or they will send you a fake check to deposit and wire the taxes back
to them so they can send you the balance of the money. Once the check
bounces you are out 100% of the funds.
-----Original Message-----
From: MRS STEVE WALTER. [mailto:browniejames@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 8:51 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS……YOU HAVE WON 650,000 POUNDS!!!
Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Wrights Lane,
Kensington London W85SP,
England UNITED KINGDOM
FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU
OFFICIAL 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
may 2008,in London UK.
Where in 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 pounds sterling) Our winners are arranged
into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly in each
category. They are arranged in this format below:
These are your identification numbers:MCS-26799/097
CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 2 £ 850,000.00 pounds each
2nd. 8 £ 650.000.00 pounds each
3rd. 13 £ 250,000.00 pounds each
4th. 27 £ 170,000.00 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: NL 56/7766
(2) Email ticket numbers: EAASL-130877
(3) Batch numbers: MC11/834/8PDH /EU
(4) The file reference numbers: HL/5574/41/07/MICS
{5} Serial Numbers: McST/006/NL46560
For verification purpose be sure to include
note that you ar to include all the data below when contacting the payment
transfer manager,
(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
{4} Your Full Names.
(5) Occupation.
(6) Your Preffered Method Of Receiving Your Price(From Below)
Mode Of Price Remittance.
(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to Uk Personally to Pick Your Price).
(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.
CONTACT:
FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
MR BROWNIE JAMES.
MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
MOBILE +44 704 576 5467
E-mail:browniejames@yahoo.com
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.
Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!
Sincerely,
MRS. JUNE WALTER.
M.S.PRO. ZONAL COORDINATOR.