Microsoft Lottery Scam
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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Recently I received the following two mails.
MAIL 1:
Your e-mail address has won you the sum of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) from the Microsoft International Lottery. For your payment, you are required to contact our fudiciary agent with the below contact details:
.......................................
Sir Terry Grifith
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email: terryonline2@british-gams.com
Tel:+447024067719,+447024096827
.......................................
INFORMATION REQUESTED:
(a) Your full Name: (b) Contact address: (c) Your Telephone and fax numbers: (d) Your Age: (e) Your occupation: (f) Your country of origin:
Thanks
Co-ordinator
MAIL 2:
This e-mail is to inform you that your e-mail address has won you the sum of £500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) from the MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY. For your payment, you are required to contact our fudiciary agent with the below contact details:
CONTACT PERSON: Mr. Terry Martins
Email: agentmartins@british-gams.com
Tel: +44 702 408 2538
Tel: +44 702 408 2508
You are also required to contact him with the below information.
INFORMATION REQUESTED:
(a) Your full Name:
(b) Contact address:
(c) Your Telephone and fax numbers:
(d) Your Age:
(e) Your occupation:
(f) Your country of origin:
Regards,
Online Co-ordinator
Microsoft Lottery International Award Notification
Needless to say both of these are scam mails aimed only to make you part with your personal data and prepare a database for the scamster. What makes me wonder is that it is not 1996. The sheer fact people still send this type of mails is proof of the fact that people still fall for this crap. Therefore I have posted this mail verbatim here to tell people that you are actually not "lucky" to get this mail. Thousands of other people have got it too. Please don't reply and a make a fool out of yourself.
MAIL 1:
Your e-mail address has won you the sum of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) from the Microsoft International Lottery. For your payment, you are required to contact our fudiciary agent with the below contact details:
..............................
Sir Terry Grifith
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email: terryonline2@british-gams.com
Tel:+447024067719,+
..............................
INFORMATION REQUESTED:
(a) Your full Name: (b) Contact address: (c) Your Telephone and fax numbers: (d) Your Age: (e) Your occupation: (f) Your country of origin:
Thanks
Co-ordinator
MAIL 2:
This e-mail is to inform you that your e-mail address has won you the sum of £500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) from the MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY. For your payment, you are required to contact our fudiciary agent with the below contact details:
CONTACT PERSON: Mr. Terry Martins
Email: agentmartins@british-gams.com
Tel: +44 702 408 2538
Tel: +44 702 408 2508
You are also required to contact him with the below information.
INFORMATION REQUESTED:
(a) Your full Name:
(b) Contact address:
(c) Your Telephone and fax numbers:
(d) Your Age:
(e) Your occupation:
(f) Your country of origin:
Regards,
Online Co-ordinator
Microsoft Lottery International Award Notification
Needless to say both of these are scam mails aimed only to make you part with your personal data and prepare a database for the scamster. What makes me wonder is that it is not 1996. The sheer fact people still send this type of mails is proof of the fact that people still fall for this crap. Therefore I have posted this mail verbatim here to tell people that you are actually not "lucky" to get this mail. Thousands of other people have got it too. Please don't reply and a make a fool out of yourself.
Labels:
Email Scam,
Technology