DEAR WINNER,
MICROSOFT CO-OPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORLD LOTTERY (MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO PROGRAMME) CONDUCTED ON 24TH OF JULY 2007
YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO THIS YEAR’S MSWLL. WITH SERIAL NUMBER 7741137002 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 5-13-33-37-42, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUMS OF $ 1,000,000 (USD ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO: ILP/HW 475061725/07 THIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF $ 25,000,000 USD, SHARED AMONG THE TWENTY-FIVE (25) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.
ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE A COMPUTER BALLOTING SYSTEM THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES, 3,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT.
2007-08-28 15:33:40 · 12 answers · asked by ansyn- 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
There are several ways to recognise a fake lottery email:
Unless you have bought a ticket, you CANNOT have won a prize. There are no such things as "email" draws or any other lottery where "no tickets were sold".
Scam lottery emails will nearly always come from free email accounts such as Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, etc, and no real business will use a free email account.
2007-08-28 16:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. If you respond, they will assure you that you indeed have won all that money. Then they will ask you either to give them the access code to your bank account or they will ask you to send them a certain amount of "good faith" money while they pretend to process your winnings and prepare to send it all to you. Then they will try to take money from your account or they will keep the "good faith" money and you'll never hear from them again - and you'll be unable to recover your "good faith" money and you certainly won't receive that million United States Dollars!
2007-08-28 15:45:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo does not run a lottery. Such emails are designed to either steal your ID/credit information and/or have you send in money to "process the claim" or whatever other way the scammers word. The truth is there is no lottery and there is no prize money.
2016-04-02 04:34:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you're being scammed. Go to www.snopes.com and click on 10. Microsoft/Aol giveaway.
I don't mean to be a damper to your hopes, but there's so many scams going on out there it's unbelieveable.
2007-08-28 15:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by Barb D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stay away ...... this is a scam. Microsoft does not run any lottery. And if they did run a lottery the email would not be in CAPS !
2007-08-28 15:40:06 · answer #5 · answered by datasprite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats about as legit as free money from Nigeria. Its a scam, don't fall for it.
2007-08-28 15:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by JayKay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spam. Don't bother trying to collect.
2007-08-28 15:36:58 · answer #7 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every and anyone of them are SPAM dont reply UNLESS you want to give money away. IT'S SPAM
2007-08-28 15:39:09 · answer #8 · answered by baggypants505 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont open e-mail unless you know who its from. a bug can be enbeded in text or graphics. and you know its a scam other wise you wouldn't have posted it.
2007-08-28 15:38:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope iv goten two of those already so they are not true... there just stupid people that like two fill your inbox with ****
2007-08-28 15:38:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋