Fake Microsoft Promotion. Don't fall for this scam
Complaint
Jain M.
Country: United Kingdom
BEWARE of the following scam! Don't be one of the thousands of people who are being scammed by these "WINNING NOTIFICATION" emails every year:
Microsoft Promotion
20 Craven Park,
Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E
Dear WINNER!!
WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking this year anniversary, we rolled out over 5, 000.000.00 (Five million Great Britain Pounds) for this year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.
The selection was made randomly from World Wide Web site through a computer draw system extracted from over 100,000 individuals and companies, attaching email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail better test.
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand, Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the sum of 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 4th July, 2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.
Please be informed by this winning notification, to file your claims, you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize. To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent;
Mr. Ian Summers
Microsoft Promotion
Email: pro2.2007@hotmail.co.uk
You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:
Your Full Names
Country
Ticket Numbers
Batch Number
Serial Number
Lucky Numbers
As indicated in this winning Notification and Phone numbers. Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates, we wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune. Thank you for being part of our Anniversary Draws.
Sincerely,
Mr. Stan Willis
Microsoft Promotion
Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contains confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
© 2007 Microsoft MSN Corporation. All rights reserved
Microsoft Promotion
20 Craven Park,
Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E
Dear WINNER!!
WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking this year anniversary, we rolled out over 5, 000.000.00 (Five million Great Britain Pounds) for this year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.
The selection was made randomly from World Wide Web site through a computer draw system extracted from over 100,000 individuals and companies, attaching email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail better test.
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand, Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the sum of 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 4th July, 2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.
Please be informed by this winning notification, to file your claims, you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize. To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent;
Mr. Ian Summers
Microsoft Promotion
Email: pro2.2007@hotmail.co.uk
You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:
Your Full Names
Country
Ticket Numbers
Batch Number
Serial Number
Lucky Numbers
As indicated in this winning Notification and Phone numbers. Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates, we wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune. Thank you for being part of our Anniversary Draws.
Sincerely,
Mr. Stan Willis
Microsoft Promotion
Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contains confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
© 2007 Microsoft MSN Corporation. All rights reserved
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Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E
Dear Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION
The prestigious Micrsoft and Aol has set out and sucessfully organised
a Sweepstakes marking the end of year anniversary we rolled out over
$4,000,000.(Four Million Dollars) for our end of year Anniversary Draws.
Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a
wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.
The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching
personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. Bill Gates is sharing his
fortune. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL
are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that
Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and
AOL are running an e-mail data test.
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number
008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky
numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you $200,000.00
(two hundred thousand Dollars) already issued in a cheque as one of the
20 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire
winning sum of $200,000.00 (two hundred thousand Dollars) The draws
registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London, United
Kingdom.
These Draws are commemorative and as such special Please note that your
lucky winning number falls within our Africa booklet representative in
west Africa indicated in your play coupon, In view of this, your
$200,000.00 (two hundred thousand Dollars) Cheque would be released to you
by our fiduciary agent in West Africa Our Fiduciary agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your cheque as
soon as you contact him.
Make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you
through the process to facilitate the release of your winning cheque.To
file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent.
Barr. Bright Luke.
Tel: +234-806-619-4264
Email: barr_brightluke07@yahoo.co.uk
You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following
details to avoid unnecessary delays.
your Name (in Full)
Address:
Country:
Phone:
Ticket Number:
Batch Number:
Serial Number:
Lucky Numbers:
Thank you for being part of this promotional award program. Our special
thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish you the
best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being part of
our commemorative end of year Anniversary Draws.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Kate Watters
Co-ordinator
Microsoft Promotion Team
Merry X'mas to all anyway. hehe
I'll reply the email fm the courier company, with my version of their own 'Particular Form'. hehe. Let see if they gonna reply to that, or they themselves will make a report about me spamming their email n try to pull a scam on them.
To the rest of us here, if u havent reply, do reply to that mail, fill up the form with some real guyz fm our history book. Sir Alexander Graham Bell or Cristopher Columbus will be just fine. Write their actual age too, those geniuses won't notice. We r just too dumb for them.
If u guyz got the time, read too on how to turn the table to this scammers. Lets have some fun for Xmas guyz. Cheers
Microsoft Corporation.
10 Great Pulteney Road,
London,W1F 9NB
United Kingdom.
Ref: BTD/968/07
Batch: 409978E
Attn: Lucky Winner,
I am in receipt to your mail, I am Mr. John Ivan, your Microsoft Promotion Fiduciary Agent, Your email was luckily drawn by a computer balloting system as one of our winners in our experimental lottery bonanza from the prestigous MICROSOFT ONLINE PROMOTION.
Thus, making you the winner of the sum of 500,000.00 GBP {Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds} and my duty is to lead you through the process of claiming your winning prize of 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds)in the on going Microsoft Promotional Award program and make sure it is claimed by the rightful owner of this email address.
In order to process your claim you should kindly fill our form below to enable me proceed with the claim process.
This is for security reason and also to avoid unwarranted claiming of winnings
Does anyone have any idea which web site/sites has sold/passed on my/our e-mail address/es in order for me to have become so (un)lucky? I've obviously entered my e-address somewhere dodgy. I just wish I knew where so I could spam them back - or at least ask them to 'unsubscribe' me from their poxy list =(
how about this?
Are these scam email too?
MICROSOFT LOTTERY BOARD
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Microsoft Campus
Thames Valley Park
Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG
(Customer's Service Center)
Dear Winner
I am the fiduciary agent assigned to your payment file. I wish to Congratulate you on your victory, you are a lucky person to have won this email promotion. In the on going MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS held in ENGLAND AND WALES,Your e-mail address attached to ticket number P88PROMO with serial number 20-008, batch number 080011, lottery ref number MSN/ZXG2008 and drew lucky numbers
06 - 13 - 17 - 23 -32 - 43 bonus ball 49 which subsequently won you this award in the 3ND category i.e match 5 plus bonus. you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of £850,000(Eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling)in cash credited to file KLTT/KTU/2008ETN.This is from a total cash prize of £8.5 Million pounds Sterling's, shared amongst the first TEN (10) lucky winners in this second category.
The email address Draw facility uses special software to generate over 40,000 companies and 20,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world at random.
To begin your claims process, you are required to fill and forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your claims.
First name:
Middle name:
Last name:
Date of birth (yyyy-mm-dd):
Gender:
Marital status:
Address:
City:
State/province:
Country:
Occupation:
Home Phone:
Mobile/cellular:
Fax:
Specify mode of delivery of won prize
Courier delivery of Cheque or Swift bank Transfer:
You are advised to forward these information as soon as possible to enable us attend to your file. You are advised to keep your winning numbers secret to avoid unscrupulous elements from taking advantage of the situation.
Once again, congratulations.
Sincerely,
Mr Patrick Richard
Tel: (+44 ) 703 189 6829
Fiduciary Agent.
Verifications/Logistic Department
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This email and its attachments are confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). This email and its attachments may also be privileged or protected by legal rules. If you have received this by mistake please let us know by reply immediately and destroy the email and its attachments without reading, copying or forwarding the contents.
Copyright © 2008 Microsoft Promotions . All rights reserved
taget issue microsoft have nothing about this? do clear this problam,
just innovat for some email or on buiseness space in page for informe.
Persones have stallen they money.
Thank; I, winner have won J1,350,000.00 one million three hundred and-
fifty GBP for ticket no;008795727498. serial no; BTD/9080648302/06,
Draw luck no;14-21-25-39-40-47(20) 2008, Microsoft Anniversary Draw.
Yours faith fuly 08/08/2008.