Microsoft Award Team20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10United KingdomRef: BTD/968/05Batch:409978E?

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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 Microsoft and aol has set out and sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the year 2008 anniversary we rolled out over £22,000.000.00 (twenty Two Million Great Britain Pounds) for our the year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 00190 with reference number MSW1002/07 and draw numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 28 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire sum of 900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). The draws registered as category's 'A' Draw number one was co

Answer 1

It makes me laugh that anyone would believe that Microsoft and AOL teamed up to just give away close to $50m!  I mean, why would they?

And if they were to do that, it's not hard to imagine that they could hire someone who could speak English to send out the emails.

Answer 2

This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also an online form for the reporting of such. - (with links for your own country.) This site also gives excellent advice on what steps you can take to achieve a spam free inbox :

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. Please 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/