SCAM RE LOTTERY

RECEIVED THIS TODAY - IS THIS A SCAM
MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ONLINE LOTTERY.

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


&n bsp; YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref.Number: MICROAA4/734-0
Batch: 25060766143-BTA/06
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 14th of Nov.2008 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 [24], 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 US$400,000.00 (four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) credited to file

nos KTU/9023418808/04.

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 uni ons, 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 west africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, Your US$400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our payment offices here in west africa. Our west african agent Mr Mark Horgan 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
West African Fiduciary Agent for MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN PROMOTIONS.
& nbsp; Name: Mr Mark Horgan
From United Kindom (London Uk).
Tele:+447024018063
Email:[email protected]

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:.....................................……………….
REFENCE 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 Email:[email protected]
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC.

Derbyshire Shop Syndicate


Yours Faithfully,
Dr.Muhameed Ali
Online coordinator for MICROSOFT AUSTRALIAN ON-LINE PROMOTIONS.
International Program.
THE EUROPEAN ONLINE GLOBAL LOTTERY
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Hello and welcome to the forum,

This is definitely a scam!

Signs to look out for:
You did not buy a ticket in this lottery.
There is no such thing as "The Microsoft Lottery".
The scammer is using a free yahoo email service.
The contact telephone number begins with +4470 . This is a UK based redirect telephone service and very popular with scammers.
If you use google or other reliable internet search engine to research some of the terms used in this scam, you will find thousands of similar examples of the lottery scam.

Welome to Scamwarners,

As Peta said it is a scam, I have taken the liberty of searching on a few things that will give you clues as to it's authenticity.

First, the reference number, seeing as the reference number should be unique to your win it would be very unlikely to turn up a result right. Click here to see the result

The batch number has similiar results Click Here

The name of the lottery will give mixed results but usually a good indication Click Here

Even the post office box number will give you some answers on this ocassion Click Here

Of course, my favourite, search on the opening line Click Here

Or even the second line Click Here

You could search on the amount you won Click Here

The phone number will often give you some good results 447024018063 but unfortuately not on this occasion, although it will come up soon because of this thread

The email address is usually the best indicator but on this occasion it doesn't come up either.

Your searching will not always reveal results but the signs Peta pointed out are very good tips that will save you from the need for any searches, you did not win a lottery unless you bought a ticket (even then you cant be sure) and you will not be required to pay any money to recieve your winnings if you did