Microsoft Australian Online Lottery.

[Nickodemus]

MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ONLINE LOTTERY.

The Microsoft Lottery
P O Box 1010
Sydney, Australia
(Customer Services)

YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref.Number: MICROAA4/734-0
Batch: 25060766143-BTA/07

Dear Lucky Winner,

Congratulations as we happily announce to you today that the draw of the MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ONLINE LOTTERY, online International Lottery program held on the 21st, February,2007. in Australia. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: G276017-487 with Serial number 493-678 drew the lucky numbers:
[ 7-18-87-45-69-63 ] The Bonus Ball [02], which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e, matches 3 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP.1,000,000.00 (One million British Pound Sterling Only) credited to file nos KTU/9023418808/07.


All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 email addresses of unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place yearly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our U booklet representative office in United Kingdom (UK) as indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, Your GBP.1,000,000 (One Million British Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by our payment office in the United Kingdom (UK). Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Please be warned!
To claim your won prize money, please contact our claims agent with the verification form below:
Overseas Claims Unit
Oversea Fiduciary Agent for MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN PROMOTIONS.
Name: David Murray
Email: aussie_onlineclaim@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447024064440

KINDLY FILL THE CLAIMS VERIFICATION/PROCESSING FORM BELOW SEND TO HIM:


FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:......................…..
CONTACT ADDRESS:................................…………
CITY/STATE:.....................................………………. ...
COUNTRY:........................................…… ……………..
NATIONALITY:....................................…… ………......
SEX:.......................AGE:.................…… ……………....
MARITAL STATUS: .................................…………....
TEL NO: ............................FAX:.............…………… ....
OCCUPATION: ......................…………………………
AMOUNT WON:.....................................……………….
REFERENCE NO:................ BATCH NO: ............…........

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him on the email and telephone stated above. You may wish to establish contact with him via e-mail with the particulars presented above citing the batch and reference numbers to this letter.
All Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of the proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT DIRECTLY BY E-Mail: aussie_onlineclaim@yahoo.co.uk


Good luck from me and members of staff of the MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC.
Derbyshire Shop Syndicate
Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Gary Taylor.
Online coordinator for
MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ON-LINE PROMOTIONS.
International Program.

Copyright © 1994-2007 The Micro Soft Australian Online Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines



well? what do you think?


am i rich or what?

[PC1210]

Heh.

I've been getting one's from some guy in Africa saying a long lost relative of mine has died and left me with a uber-millionaire inheritance.

[Ubergopher]

Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.
Damnit you fool! You've violated the strictest level of confidentiality. Now anyone can fill out that form and get money! You foolish fool!

[Neo]

I get enough of these bullshit spam emails in... my email. Don't bring it to the forums T_T

-Kupa

[Schwitzer]

I'm feeling generous, so I'll give you some free common sense.

MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ONLINE LOTTERY.
There's just something about this phrase... let's have a looky.

The Microsoft Lottery
P O Box 1010
Sydney, Australia
(Customer Services)
Microsoft forgot to put a post-code, apparently! How silly of them. (Sydney is a capital city of Australia and therefore has a swarm of suburbs. Simply saying "send to Sydney" is like saying "send to somewhere in Canberra")

YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref.Number: MICROAA4/734-0
Batch: 25060766143-BTA/07
That's a lot of numbers. How impressive. Seems unnecessarily complicated though, mmm?

Dear Lucky Winner,

Congratulations as we happily announce to you today that the draw of the MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ONLINE LOTTERY, online International Lottery program held on the 21st, February,2007. in Australia. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: G276017-487 with Serial number 493-678 drew the lucky numbers:
Wow, Microsoft apparently has really bad grammar. I'm not entirely sure what this is saying. Something about a draw that was held today, I think.

[ 7-18-87-45-69-63 ] The Bonus Ball [02], which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e, matches 3 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP.1,000,000.00 (One million British Pound Sterling Only) credited to file nos KTU/9023418808/07.
Ooh, this is fun! It's a lottery that you win without even entering! I wonder how they make their profits, then? Or even why Microsoft is running it.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 email addresses of unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place yearly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our U booklet representative office in United Kingdom (UK) as indicated in your play coupon.
Heh, if you're going to try to run a scam, at least speak the language of the target victim. It kinda undoes everything if you can't put forward something with proper formal writing.

Where's this alleged "play coupon"?

In view of this, Your GBP.1,000,000 (One Million British Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by our payment office in the United Kingdom (UK). Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
That easily? No terms and conditions? Nothing about unclaimed winnings or cut off dates? Hmm!

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Avoiding double claiming I can understand, but "unwarranted abuse"? Where the hell is this abuse? If someone leaks their winning information and someone else claims the prize that's tough for the winner; they shouldn't've done that. It's not like they're going to pay out to everyone who provides duplicate information.

Please be warned!
To claim your won prize money, please contact our claims agent with the verification form below:
Overseas Claims Unit
Oversea Fiduciary Agent for MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN PROMOTIONS.
Name: David Murray
Email: aussie_onlineclaim@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447024064440
Ooh, Microsoft is using Yahoo! mail. :P

KINDLY FILL THE CLAIMS VERIFICATION/PROCESSING FORM BELOW SEND TO HIM:

FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:......................…..
CONTACT ADDRESS:................................…………
CITY/STATE:.....................................………………. ...
COUNTRY:........................................…… ……………..
NATIONALITY:....................................…… ………......
SEX:.......................AGE:.................…… ……………....
MARITAL STATUS: .................................…………....
TEL NO: ............................FAX:.............…………… ....
OCCUPATION: ......................…………………………
AMOUNT WON:.....................................……………….
REFERENCE NO:................ BATCH NO: ............…........
Now, why they're asking for the "amount won" is beyond me. If you have a valid reference number, they would be able to look it up on their system. Or maybe they're just forgetful and need reminding so they know how much to pay you, har.

Marital status was an interesting addition too - wouldn't expect to see that on a prize redemption form. If they really wanted statistics that bad, they would've put it on their entry form. Oh wait, there was no entry form. Your e-mail was just magically entered. :P

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him on the email and telephone stated above. You may wish to establish contact with him via e-mail with the particulars presented above citing the batch and reference numbers to this letter.
Hand-wavy bullshit.

All Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of the proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Yes, we don't want unwarranted abuse of our scam. I mean, lottery.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT DIRECTLY BY E-Mail: aussie_onlineclaim@yahoo.co.uk
Because all multi-million dollar prize lotteries use free Yahoo! accounts. Especially when run by Microsoft.

Good luck from me and members of staff of the MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC.
Good luck? Why? Haven't you already won?

Derbyshire Shop Syndicate
Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Gary Taylor.
Online coordinator for
MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ON-LINE PROMOTIONS.
International Program.

Copyright © 1994-2007 The Micro Soft Australian Online Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines
Oops! Microsoft got typoed as Micro Soft. Just when you about had me convinced, too.

"On-line promotions" is a term that suddenly landed in the e-mail out of thin air, but I'm not entirely sure what's supposedly being promoted here by randomly giving people money without even requiring them to enter a competition for it.