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FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE


AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY


UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,


Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.





FAX:+447092879162





REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26940


BATCH NO: 2008 MAY TL#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 of the today’s winners of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in London BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 1st,MAY 2008.





Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5 MAY-2008-02MSW, with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay ofGBP £5,500,000.00 ( (Five Million, Five hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash Credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/200-26940 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 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 (certified cheque) has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-L/200-26940 and will be ready for delivery. It will be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster Staff in charge of London zone ( PROF. HASSAN MOHAMMED). 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.





You are to keep your ref. number 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 next year High stakes of US$0.3billion International Lottery. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact our London claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you.





THE PAYMASTER OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:





PROF. HASSAN MOHAMMED


(PAYMASTER)


E-MAIL : msw_paymentoffice2090@yahoo.co.uk


TEL +447024069075

Is this true?Microsoft lottery winner?
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Reply:Total fraud. Don't respond.
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