Is the microsft prizes in internet is real or fake?

Question

email for prize all the time

Answer 1

FAKE!! Look it up on snopes.

Answer 2

I made a search 'bout it and it turned out to be fake. Dont interact with it or forward to others.

Answer 3

This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet and how to report them.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...

Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.

Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

Answer 4

ahhhh its a fake. dude dont giva a d**n

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Answer 5

It has to be real it's on teh internets

Answer 6

Avoid the “Microsoft Lottery” phishing scam

Updated: May 30, 2007

Recently Microsoft customers have become targets of this scam, which employs false e-mail messages that promise that you have won "The Microsoft Lottery."

We're sorry to say that you did not win the Microsoft Lottery, because there is no Microsoft Lottery.

These e-mail messages are intended to start a dialogue with people in order to convince them to hand over money or personal information or to click dangerous links on the Web.

This is a type of phishing scam known as an "advanced fee fraud." Its most common form is an e-mail message that claims that you have won a large sum of money, or that a person will pay you a large sum of money for little or no work on your part.

It's also known as the Nigerian Letter or the 419 scam because the scammer often claims to be from Nigeria and 419 is the Nigerian criminal code that this scam violates.

You can use the same general guidance that you use to protect yourself from phishing scams to help protect yourself from these e-mail hoaxes.

• Don't respond to suspicious e-mail messages.



• Don't click links in suspicious e-mail messages.



• Delete suspicious e-mail messages and move on.



• Report suspicious e-mail messages to the Anti-phishing Working Group.

Answer 7

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...

http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...

.Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful