Microsoft Lottery scam

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Your E-mail Have Won £1.350,0000.00 Pounds Sterling For You!!!?
From: MICROSOFT E-MAIL PROMO LOTTERY ([email protected])
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Sent: November 26, 2008 12:07:51 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS!

After a successful draws of the MICROSOFT E-MAIL PROMO LOTTERY held on the
24nd November2008,your company or your personal e-mail address,attached to
winning numbers:(23) (77) (04) (57)(33) (170)won in the Tenth lottery
category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1.350,
0000.00 (One Million, Three Hundred and fifty thousand Pounds Sterling)in
cash credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/008-28793,BATCH NO.4365.


Claims processor officer:Mr.Sean Anderson
Email:[email protected]
Phone: +447031986753
+447031986763

Your secret pin code is ML0757985.
Provide the following information.


1. Full Name....................................
2. Address:..................................
3. Phone:.................................
4. Country:............................
5. Sex..............................
6. Occupation...................
7. Age.....................


Yours Faithfully
Mrs.Marilyn Malingue
Head Customer care Service.
Microsoft Promotion Award Team.

Here is information from Microsoft itself, verifying that there is NO Microsoft Lottery.

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourse ... ttery.mspx

excerpt taken from above page, written by Microsoft:

We're sorry to say that you did not win the Microsoft Lottery, because there is no Microsoft Lottery.

These e-mail messages are intended to start a dialogue with people in order to convince them to hand over money or personal information or to click dangerous links on the Web.

This is a type of phishing scam known as an "advanced fee fraud." Its most common form is an e-mail message that claims that you have won a large sum of money, or that a person will pay you a large sum of money for little or no work on your part.

It's also known as the Nigerian Letter or the 419 scam because the scammer often claims to be from Nigeria and 419 is the Nigerian criminal code that this scam violates.