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——– Original Message ——–
Subject: CHECK MONEY ON WON PROMOTION (30-Mrz-2006 13:32)
From: msn.msn.xxl@virgilio.it
To: undisclosed-recipients

CHECK MONEY ON WON PROMOTION

FROM:THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Microsoft B.V.
Boeing
Avenue 33
6612 PE Schiphol-Rijk.
The Netherlands.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY
"A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT PROMOTION INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 30th of March 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number QZ-316-NL, with serial number 8222-66 drew the lucky numbers 9-17-5-73-8-11 and consequently won in the First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.This is from the total prize money from 1,500,000 shared among the two winners in this category CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to avoid Disqualification we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your fund has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non winners of this program.
Please contact your claims department immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
You are advised to contact the agents by email.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE:
For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD

To file for your claim, please contact the below approved agent.
***********************************************
Mr. Sticker van Haren,
Address: Transvaalstraat. 220A 2060 HT, AMSTERDAM,
NETHERLANDS.
Tel:+31-202-220-012
Email :prudenttrustinnx@netscape.net
***********************************************

Congratulations once again from all our staff.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.MARISKA NOWAK.
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
THE NETHERLANDS NL.

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11 Responses to “Microsoft Promotion Lottery”
  1. Anonymous says:

    IT IS TRUE? I’VE RECEIVED SAME MAILS YESTERDAY… SOUND EXACTLY DA SAME AS URS…

  2. even i have received a similar kind of mail from Microsoft.
    is this true?
    plz reply…………

  3. No, none of the Lottery Prize e-mails are real. My advice to you is not to answer them. You will lose money if you do.

  4. this i recive to day

    Dear Lucky Winner contact Prof Melvin Pedro.Via Email:(microsoftnl2008@aim.com) for claim
    Von: wesle71@planet.nl
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    An:

    Dear Lucky Winner contact Prof Melvin Pedro.Via Email:(microsoftnl2008@aim.com) for claim
    The NL Microsoft Promotion Lottery.
    Your email account have been picked up as a winner of a lump sum pay out of (€1,000,000.00 Euros) in cash credited to file REF NO.REF:N.L/74-A0802742007.
    Contact:Prof Melvin Pedro. VIA EMAIL:
    EMAIL: microsoftnl2008@aim.com
    Tel: +31-61438-5293.
    Tel: +31-84730-1112.
    PLEASE SEND YOUR BELOW DETAILS FOR VERIFICATION BEFORE TRANSFER;
    Name..
    Country..
    Sex..
    Age..
    Occupation..
    Phone..
    Address..
    Status..
    Lottery Ref No…
    Amount Won…

    CHOOSE YOUR CLAIM PAYMENT OPTION.
    (1)Courier
    (2)Bank Transfer.
    Congratulations once again
    Mrs.Dianne Thompson
    Online Coordinator,NL MICROSOFT LOTTERY,
    Operator of The National Lottery.

  5. Anonymous says:

    i received the same email on the 26th of March 2008. from the same person with the same details.(Prof.Melvin Pedro) if u reply,they even send you a bank form from Postbank (or some other bank) to fill in your account number and detals. Don’t even think about sending them.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Today I recieved this !

    Subject: CONFIRM YOUR PRIZE
    From: alessandro.gallotta@virgilio.it
    Date: Wed, April 9, 2008 11:19 pm
    To: undisclosed-recipients:;
    Priority: Normal
    Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file

    CONFIRM YOUR PRIZE

    The NL Microsoft Promotion Lottery.
    Your email
    account have been picked up as a winner of a lump sum pay out of
    (€1,000,000.00 Euros) in cash
    credited to file REF NO.REF:N.L/74-
    A0802742007.

    Contact Dr. Evans Williams.
    Email: ClaimLot@aim.com
    STAATS LOTERIJ CLAIMS DEPARTMENT.
    INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM.
    Nederlandse
    StaatsloterijPostbus 3334
    5902 RH Venlo, Nederlandse.
    TEL:
    0031.619-703-948
    FAX: 0031-847-53-9200

    PLEASE SEND YOUR BELOW DETAILS
    FOR VERIFICATION BEFORE TRANSFER;

    Name..
    Country..
    Sex..
    Age..
    Occupation..
    Phone..
    Mobile Phone..
    Fax No..
    Address..
    Status..
    Lottery
    Ref No…
    Amount Won…

    CHOOSE YOUR CLAIM PAYMENT OPTION.
    (1)Courier
    (2)Bank Transfer.

    Congratulations once again

    Sincerely Yours,
    Mrs.
    Mariam Ghooi
    Online Coordinator,NL MICROSOFT LOTTERY,
    Operator of The
    National Lottery.

  7. Fighting poverty round the world

    THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZEAWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
    UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,
    Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.

    REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
    BATCH NO: 2008 SEPT#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 UNITED KINGDOM BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 23rd SEPTEMBER, 2008.

    Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 5 SEPTEMBER-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 £1,500,000.00 ( (One Million, Five hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash Credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/200-26937 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/200-26937 and will be ready for delivery. It will be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster Staff in charge of African zone (DR. HARRY DAVIS). 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 PAYMENT MASTER OFFICER CONTACT EMAIL IS:

    DR. HARRY DAVIS
    (PAYMENT MASTER)
    EMAIL: lotterypaymentdepartment@yahoo.co.uk
    paymentmasterofficer@yahoo.com

    TELL: +447024054522

    Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 23rd OCTOBER, 2008. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organization in Africa.

    NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. Do not reply any other mails like this on net, as they are a lot of scam artist out there pretending to be us. You may see mails like this do not reply. Do contact your claims officer DR.HARRY DAVIS. At once you will be asked to provide some details to enable the office proceed with your winning certificate and file keeping.

    Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Microsoft Cooperation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gate of Microsoft and all his Associates for alleviating poverty round the World.
    Sincerely,

    Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Caro Smith
    (Co-ordinator). (Secretary)

    LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

    MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
    MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.

    Past winners.

    YOUR ADDRESS HAS WON.

    Shankar Dutt Tripathis last blog post..games link 1

  8. Look at that scam I received:

    SPONSOR LOTERIJ CLAIMS DEPARTMENT.
    WEST- VARKENOODSWEG 290,
    3074HN, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
    TEL: +31-643-651-181.
    TEL: +31-643-502-787.
    FAX : +31-847-290-539.
    E-MAIL: spbglot1@aol.nl

    WINNING INFORMATION/OUR SERVICES

    Attention: Winner,

    Congratulations from our members of staff. This is the Claims Department of Sponsor Loterij Nederland responsible for the processing of winning prizes in the e-mail lottery program. Your e-mail address attached to a single ticket found as one of the lucky Ten e-mail addresses which emerged to have won €500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Euros only) each.( NO TICKETS WERE SOLD ) The information was passed to you and to us by the Lottery Coordinator – Sweepstakes International office via the Public Relation Officer to ensure that we are in contact with the rightful owners of the winning e-mails and web-site addresses.

    We quite understand your suprise and skepticism,hence we write to give you clear details and modalities of the requirements for the Claim of Your Won-Prize and to assure you that this is a legitimate and authentic lottery promotions.

    This lottery promotion is internet based and was carried out with the aid of the e-ballotting system that randomly selects different email addresses of individuals and organisations from arround the globe,Hence you did not have to play the lottery directly but because you are an internet user your email address was selected and fortunately it won one of the slots for this prize award.

    Firstly, our ultimate concern is that our clients get their winning prizes as quickly as possible. You are therefore required to fill the attached”Claim Verification Form” with the required details and return back to this office by fax or as e-mail attachment. After been confirmed as the bonafide winner, a “Release Order” will be issued and you will be invited to sign this document after which a “Beneficiary Award Certificate” will be presented to you. You will also be required to complete a “Payment Scheme Form B6″, where you will have to indicate your preferred mode of payment. Your winning prize being deposited at the Treasury department of our Paying bank, will therefore be eventually paid/remitted in your preferred mode of payment, within 3 working days.

    Due to mix-up of certain numbers and names, you are requested to keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and winning prize paid/remitted to your nominated account.. This is part of our security protocols to avoid abuse of the program by some participants.

    Due to the volume of your winning prize, it is covered by HIGH INSURANCE POLICY BOND, in accordance with Article 342 of the World Gaming Board as amended in the 1996 Constitution. This is to protect the prime winner and mis-appropriation of funds.

    Be assured that, in line with our principles of efficiency, transparency and customers` satisfaction, we handle all verification exercises with the highest level of professionalism and discretion to ensure that our clients receive their prizes within the shortest time, possible.

    For more information, please contact the under-signed directly on +31-643-680-894. We are open between 08.00 hrs -20.30hrsGMT from Mondays through Fridays and on Saturdays from 0800 hrs -1800hrs GMT.

    Once again, Congratulations.

    Best Regards,
    Mw.Katty Van Dirk.(Sec.)for
    Mr. H. P. Chris.
    SPONSOR LOTERIJ NEDERLAND .

    AND THEN:

    INVITATION/PROCESSING

    Attention: Winner

    We acknowledge receipt of your duly completed Claim Verification Form. After formal verification and scrutiny exercises, you are found qualified to receiving payment of the stated lottery prize, which has been issued in Certified Bank Draft in your name. A copy of your Certified Bank Draft in your name is attached to this mail. We have been able to schedule for you an early appointment, we shall proceed to conclude the payment processes of your lottery prize and your winning money €500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Euros only) shall be confirmed to you in your stipulated mode of payment within 3 working days.

    The International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands, has requested you to be at the court on the appointed time stipulated below. You are therefore been invited to come along with (1)A valid Identification proof (as you have indicated in the Claim Verification Form,(Name and Date of Birth),(2) €280 (this you will have to pay at High Court) as Saturday the 20th day of Dec. 2008 has been confirmed for you to come to The Netherlands for the signing of the Release Order of your winning prize. You are also requested to come to The Hague on Friday the 19th day of Dec. 2008 for the Notarization of your winning prize at the International Court of Justice, The Hague in preparation for the signing ceremony Release Order of your winning prize the next working day Saturday the 20th day of Dec. 2008.

    Endeavour to send your flight schedule so that our Protocol Officer can pick you up from the airport to our office, as your appointment is for 11.00am local time.
    Please, note that your inability to honour this appointment should be communicated to this office as soon as possible, so that alternative arrangements could be made for you. If you cannot come in person, we shall arrange for an attorney here from our Legal Department, to assist you in signing the Release Document as well as to collect the Award Certificate on your behalf, before the fund can be released to your designated account. In which case, you will be expected to furnish this office, with the following, immediately;

    (a) A duly completed ” Power of Attorney” (as attached) designating the Head of our Legal Dept., Advocaat Barr. Blenheim Mark, to sign and collect all relevant documents on your behalf;
    (b) A duly completed Payment Scheme Form B6 as attached.
    (c) Payment confirmation receipt of €430 (this includes €280 for your Notaries and €150 Attorney charges)
    All documents obtained after the signing of the Release Order will be forwarded to you immediately, on receipt.

    THE REASON OF HAVING A NOTARY DOCUMENTS, NOTARY SEALED IN YOUR NAME HERE IN THE NETHERLANDS.

    A, “Notarial or Notarization” means documents that a Notary Public Officer of the Netherlands assigned with the International Court of Justice – The Hague, Netherlands is authorized to perform under the law of Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (FFSA) in Article 43-2001 of Notarization in The Netherlands.

    B, Upon the “Notarial or Notarization” a Notary Seal legalizing the fund for release to you in your preferred mode of payment will be placed on the notarised documents by the Notary Officer at the International Court of Justice – The Hague, Netherlands . In the Notary Seal will include CERTIFICATION SEAL OF DOCUMENTS .

    C, The “Notarial Certificate” completed by the Notary Officer issued, bearing the Notary’s Officer signature and Seal will be released to you by the Notary Officer upon the payment of the Mandatory Notaries Fee €280, and the “Notarial Certificate” will also state the facts attested by the Notary Officer in the Notarization.

    If you are not be able to honour your appointment, the Head of our Legal Dept., Advocaat Barr. Blenheim Mark will represent you at the International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands to sign and collect all relevant documents on your behalf so as to expedite the payment of your prize fund by our paying Bank to your designated Bank as you will indicated in the Payment Scheme Form B6.

    Be informed that, the Mandatory Notaries Fee €280 can`t be taken or deducted from your prize because the Netherlands Monetary Laws and European Monetary Union (EMU) Council respectively imposes HARDCOVER INSURANCE POLICY BOND on your prize fund of €500,000.00 and this policy doe`s not permit any deduction from your fund until it gets to your designated Bank account, The Hardcover Insurance Policy Bond is also implemented to all EU member states banks and financial institutions since after the Sept. 11th 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, over any money that is above Three hundred thousand U.S dollars (US$300,000.00) that is in payment/remittance within and outside Europe.

    You are required to make the payment of the obligatory Notarization Fee and the attorney charges of €430 (Four Hundred and Thirty Euro only), before we would proceed in concluding the documentary procedures and your winning prize subsequently remitted to your designated account.

    The fees can be payed via Western Union Money Transfer for time factor to the accredited government broker who will in turn hand over to the attorney to commence actions on your file.

    FIRST NAME……….TANER
    LAST NAME………..ESMELI
    ADDR…………..AMSTERDAM–THE NETHERLAND

    And when made, the copy of the Payment Confirmation Receipt for the €430, a duly completed Power of Attorney and a duly completed Payment Scheme Form B6 should be sent to this office, preferably via fax or e-mail. Once these is done, it will enable the Legal Dept. of this company proceed to obtain the legalization document from the International Court of Justice after paying for the Notaries cost, conclude the documentary procedures, sign the Release documents on your behalf.
    For further clarifications if needed, please call on the undersigned.

    We hope, this will serve the purpose for which it has been communicated.

    All rights and obligation of any client to this claim can be denied if the Release Document is not signed .

    We await your acknowledgement and prompt response

    Congratulations.

    Best Regards,
    Mr. H. P. Chris.
    SPONSOR LOTERIJ NEDERLAND

  9. Clair,

    many thanks for posting the two messages. It helps to show what to expect if you get in contact with these crooks

    Michael

  10. And they keep on !!!!

    Dear Mr. A. Wassen,

    I write to confirm your mail and to inform you that since you are not able to come in person, you have to send the Power of Attorney well fill in before the Legal Department can represent you in court.

    Be inform that you are required also to send alongside the Power of Attorney, A copy of the Payment Scheme Form B6, A copy of an Identity Proof(passport, ID-Card or Drivers License), And A proof of the payment that you made that is, the payment slip for the €430.

    Hope you are well informed.

    Regards,
    Mr. Hanson P Chris.

  11. I wonder how many will follow? :-)

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