Fake Microsoft Internet Lotter EMail

Where Do I Begin?

This is such a horribly crafted piece of schlock that I almost didn’t include it. Even the subject line is wrong, misspelling the word “lottery”. But still, people might believe that Microsoft really does give away money. Newsflash: They don’t. And it’s “Microsoft Corporation”, not “Company”. I’ve made the really obvious parts in BOLD, but truly, if I bolded everything wrong with this email, the whole thing would be bolded.

Microsoft

You won £1,500,000! Microsoft congratulates you!

MICROSOFT INTERNET LOTTERY

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON £1,500,000!

CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!

Microsoft Company gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as one of 12 top winner’s accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won prize money of £1,500,000 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) for the month of April 2008 lottery win promotion which is organized by Microsoft Company each every month.

Microsoft Company, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on Hotmail & Yahoo ! Mail and all other Email Users, among the millions that subscribe to email users across the world we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our British Representative Office in United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £1,500,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in U.K

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your identification numbers:-

Batch number……………….Lwh09445
Lotto number………………..Lwh09446
Winning number…………….Lwh09447
Serial number……………….Lwh094478

To begin your claims, You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:

CONTACT DETAILS OF YOUR CLAIM ADMINISTRATOR

MR. PETER OWEN.

Tel Number +447031832xxx

Fax Number +448704719xxx

Email : mr.peterowenxx@consultant.com
: mr.peterowenxx@yahoo.com
: mr.peterowenxx@googlemail.com

CONTACT DETAILS OF YOUR CLAIM ADMINISTRATOR

You are required to forward him with the above winning details. As soon as you contact your Claims Agent, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. (Congratulations once more!!)

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr WILLIAM GERRI (PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
MICROSOFT INC

NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO, KINDLY CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER DIRECTIONS. Microsoft

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You can see how horribly this fake email is thrown together. All the usual suspects are present, including the footer that the sender’s ISP appended to the email, advertising broadband access. Makes you wonder how these guys make any money at all…

I am Jon, and this certainly isn’t from Microsoft.

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