Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Scam Alert - Congrats!!! From Microsoft London UK

Beware! Its a Cuber World: Congrats!!!From Microsoft London Uk
Today I received the following mail and I'm sure thousands of internet users would have received that email winning notification; pretending to be exclusively for me.   
Unknown person notifying me for winning GBP. 1,000,000 cash award from Microsoft London UK Microsoft Corporation and asking for my personal details, as usual in such cases, to be provided to Dr James Owen further processing. Further processing will end up on the demand of processing fee.

It's a scam, so don't get trapped and never send your personal information.


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From: Congrats!!!From Microsoft London Uk.
Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 4:37:51 PM
Subject: Congrats!!!From Microsoft London Uk.




FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM. 61-70 Southampton Row, Blooms bury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.

REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH NO: 2011 JANUARY L#22
WINNER NO: 5

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM



                           WINNING NOTIFICATION !


Dear Sir/ Madam,

We the MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you that you're among our winners of  MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in the UNITED KINGDOM (LONDON) BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT MONTH MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON  7th  JANUARY OF,2011.HOWEVER THE RESULTS WERE RELEASED ON THE 8th OF JANUARY ,2011.

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5
JANUARY-2011-12 MSW, with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won=2 0in the first lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of GBP
£1,000,000.00  (One Million Pounds Sterling Only) in cash Credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/200-26937 this is from total prize money of GBP £27,500,000.00 POUNDS, shared among the Twenty-five (25) lucky international winners in first and second category.

All participants were selected from Worldwide Websites especially Yahoo mail,msn mail,aol mail, icq mail through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from 21,000 Names, 3,000 names from each continent (Canada, Asia, Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania , as part of International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, Which is conducted annually for our prominent MS -WORD users all over the world, and to encourage the use of Internet and Computers worldwide.

Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 and will be ready for transfer/delivery. It will be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster Staff in charge of UNITED KINGDOM (LONDON) Zone ( DR JAMES OWEN). Your E-mail address should be used in all correspondence with your claims officer, please Note that, you are to contact your claims officer via email and phone as we are promoting the use of E-mail. Also you have the right to call him to confirm your winnings and government tax payment that is all, as he will provide you with the necessary details on how to claim Your prize.
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You are to keep your REF NUMBERS and BATCH NUMBER from the public, until you have been processed and your prize money delivered to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and the act of scamming people of their ref number and prizes. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of the year High stakes of US$3billion International Lottery. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact our claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you.

THE  PAYMASTER OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:

(PLEASE REPLY WITH THIS EMAIL BELOW)

PAYMASTER/CLAIM AGENT:
NAME:Dr James Owen
TEL:+447035978550
EMAIL: drjamesowen1957@live.com


YOU HAVE TO CONTACT YOUR PAYMASTER WITH THE MICROSOFT WINNER'S APPLICATION/VERIFICATION FORM OF PAYMENT PROCESSING

  WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA

1.First Name..........
2.Middle Name........
3.Last Name............
4.Gender............
5.Month Of Birth... Day.. Year...
6.Marital Status............
7.Nationality............
8.Religion...............
9.Occupation/Company`s Name.:

10.Mobile phone No.............
11.House Phone No...............
12.Email Address.: .eg. username@dormainname.com

WINNING INFORMATION.

13.Ref Number...........
14.Batch Number...........
15.Winner Number...........`````````
16.Amount Won..............
17.Bank Name............
18.Bank Address................
19.Bank Account No............

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 30TH OF MARCH 2011. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and will be seen as forfeited by you hence will be donated  to charity organization around the world.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences wit h your claims officer. Do not reply any other mails like this on net, as they are a lot of scam artist out there pretending to be us. You may see mails like this do not reply. Do contact your claims officer DR JAMES OWEN at once,you will be asked to provide some details to enable the office proceed with your winning certificate and file keeping.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Microsoft Cooperation to all our  lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates of Microsoft and all his Associates for alleviating poverty round the World.
Sincerely,


LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK,             MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA,            MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA

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4 comments:

BeanerDude said...

I got the same mail too!!

Anonymous said...

Ladies BEWARE! He also posts as an available widower and single eengineer by profession in most dating sites... James Owen/ or James Oowens.... if that's his real name... he'll emotionally entrap you and promise you loving lifelong relationship, he'll claim to have inherited money but needs help claiming from foreign country...such as Malaysia, for all his love and soul, you'll just have to provide your bank account.... ha-ha... hopefullly no one falls for this SCAMbug!

Anonymous said...

Hi,
I got a similar email today. Now his name is FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
Sir Davis Dons.
Tel: +44 758 681 0947
Email: claimsdept2011@aol.com

I bet its a fat nigger from Nigeria or South Africa, who thinks that all Europeans are silly. Just delete it. Too bad we cant just send a special forces to wipe out those gangsters.

Toria said...

I have just had a txt to my Pre-Paid mobile saying from CONGRATS I have won 400,000 pounds in the 2011 UK mobile draw,Send a Ref to email @yahoo.com.uk . Mr Evan and uk phone number is the contact for more info.

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