Is the microsoft windows lottery true or it is a joke?

Answer 1

Did you buy a lottery ticket?
If not this is a scam. I get about five per day.
Just delete it and ignore it..

www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm www.scambuster419.co.uk/lottery.htm
antivirus.about.com/cs/hoaxes/p/lottery.htm
www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/lotterywin.htm

please forward it to [e-mail].

Answer 2

Not true. Anything that will give you something for nothing and all you have to do is forward or supply ID or a bank account, etc is phony. Follow all the directions and watch your credit go down the tubes and your bank account disappear.

Answer 3

It is a joke. Unless you can find it on the microsoft website It is a scam.

Answer 4

Eli, it is a hoax. I received an e-mail stating it was from an attorney who "never" sends chain letters. Well, this person said that if you forwarded the letter to as many recipients as you could you would get paid by Microsoft something likse $245.00, for each person you sent it to who sent it on to people they knew you would receive somthing like $243.00, and when those folks sent off the letter you would receive something like $241.00. That just wait two weeks and Microsoft would contact you and send a check for a minimum of ten grand, that this person didn't believe it but then saw the check his sister in law or somebody he was closely related to,, which was as yet uncashed. The letter (e-mail) went on to state that if you sent this off Microsoft would track all these e-mails somehow, that it was a marketing sceame of some sort which would pay the recipiants and participants. At the end it said, what do you have to lose?, and it was forwarded to me from a very good friend of mine who I trust. Well, at the time I thought, yeah, what do I have to lose and I went ahead and sent it off to my friends. Now, thank goodness nothing has gone wrong. Oh, Microsoft never contated me to send me any ten grand or more check, which I pretty much expected them to not do, but after this I began thinking, ok, could this have caused problems and is there something to lose?

First why was this letter sent out by a person NOT of Microsoft? The letter was from an attorney, supposedly, but not a Microsoft attorney. That is odd, now I have had time to really stop and think about this entire episode. If Microsoft was conducting a type of e-mail test of some sort, the originating e-mail should have come from Microsoft, and had a Microsoft address at the very start of the header information. Then I asked myself, what sort of information is on this e-mail which somebody would like to have , and who would like to have it. I saw that ALL of the people who had e-mailed this before me had their e-mail addresses listed right on this e-mail, and mine would be shown then too, right? So, advertisers who would like to send spam would love all these e-mail addresses we were all so happily sending off into cyberspace. If Microsoft could tract that e-mail then so could a skilled internet users, right? Yep, that is what these e-mail chain letters are all about, gathering up unsuspecting people's e-mail addresses so spam can be sent out, and so the e-mail address list can be sold to others with the same intentions of sending out unsolicited e-mail, junking up our inboxes.

People wonder why they start getting so much spam in their inboxes. Well, it is due to their not using their accounts in a safe manner. When we give out our e-mail address to any website who requests it and do not do a bit of investigation, we are exposing ourselves to potentially unwanted spam due to our address being used by that sites advertisers whom that site has sold our address too. Just giving out our e-mail address indescriminantly, is offering the WWW a huge opening into our inboxes. Today there is billions in internet advertisement and sale potentials, so e-mail addresses is a huge boon in sending off solicitations to as many people as possible. If a person sends off a hundred e-mail advertisements and only ten percent of that hundred responds to the ad, that provides a tremendous money earning potential. People have no idea how profitable it is to send these ads out threw e-mail accounts. Especially when the account is set to receive HMXL which allows for the colorful pictures and even sound to be seen and heard in the ad. It is almost like watching a t.v. commercial right in your inbox. That is powerfull sales tactics and it is an ongoing battle to get this unwanted mail out of our boxes.

These folks care nothing for whether or not we want their junk in our inbox. They care only for their bottom line and as long as even one percent responds to these ads there will continue to be profitable reasons to send off these unsolicited junk mailings and it will continue to be profitable to fish for active e-mail accounts to compile a mailing list to send all these ads off to.

So, is this Microsoft Windows Lottery True or is it a Joke? Buzzzzzzzzzz, it is a joke, a hoax, a trick, a slap in the face of trusting individuals who have the audacity to have dreams and hopes of magic still happening in life. These people who do all this marketing, they have phschologists and even phychiatrists on staff who are there only to help the company see into the minds and motivations of the masses. They compile pages and pages of targeted groups and what type of message and visuals would be most attractive to each group of individuals. A ad with some rap, some pizzaz, and sizzle would be appealing to the fifteen to twenty five crowd, an with a touch of seriousness about credit, and the future earnings potential with some earnest music and visual would appeal to the crowd attending college, or starting out on their own, an ad with a touch of business sense, of reaching out to those in business who would like 'quality' software which costs less than Microsoft Office, but does all the same things, ect, take hold of your own business bottom line and invest in this software, etc, may be appealing to guess who? Yep, you are correct!! The people in business for themselves who need to streatch every dime of startup capital or the capital put back in from profits. The list goes on and on of target audiances.

Listen, nobody is going to reach out threw the net and offer anyone anything for free. If there are free things on the web, and there are, we have to search these out, they won't come to our inbox unsolicited. These free items are usually software which are accessed on a website which has extensive ads, depending on how well the website creator has established it. The more traffic a site gets the more attractive this site if for advertisers who want to reach people to sell products to them. CNET DOWNLOADS is a great example. It is a super site with oodles of free. and low to high cost software programs all listed with testimonials from users and this site has ads all over it. But due to the freeware and shareware I go there at least monthly.

I have trained myself to not 'see' the ads on websites any longer. So have many others, so the advertisers have to become ever more creative and loud in their messages. Now we have ads jumping out at us, with the message blaring us in the ears, before we can click on the spot which shuts them up. I have trained myself to quickly find that shut off spot and can now click like the fasted mouse in town!! ;-)

Be carefull when responding to unsolicited ads, and chain letters sent from friends. Just because a friend may have been fooled does not mean that friend means you any harm, or that you should send it off to your unsuspecting friends too. Be smart and realize if it sounds too good to be true it most certainly is too good to be true. Also, do a minimum of investigation before giving a site your e-mail address. Just clicking on the privacy statement (if a site has one, if it does't you know right there not to give out your address) and just look for the TRUSTe sign, the BBBOnline sign, the Verisign, or other simular signs which show the site has agreed to keep your personal information safe from sale, and advertisers. Also remember that third party advertisers on that site are not bound to that sites privacy statement, so if you follow a third party link, look at their websites privacy statement. It does not take long to do this, just a click or two and a short glance even at the privacy page and words on it. After you read a few of these you will know what information you are looking for which means the most, such as what their intentions are with your personal information, etc.

Good luck in your fighting off these horrid spammers and keeping your inbox as uncluttered as possible from junk mail. Have a great day!