Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft!!!

[moggy]

Has anyone else had the very suspicious e-mail titled

 

'OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.

 

Telling you you won a prize and stating:

 

"To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for

VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this winning

notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine

working days of winning notification are termed void and invalid. You are

required to mention the above particulars of your

award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your

winning.

CONTACT:

*******************************************************************

FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER

MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).

 

MR.SMITH GRIN

E-mail: [email protected]

 

********************************************************************

The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our

CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies."

 

If only it was that simple to get money!!!!!!

[Domino]

hehehe

 

what makes me laugh is that yahoo email address, from a "microsoft employee"

[OutToLunch]

Nope, but if the @yahoo.com address isn't enough for people to realise it's fake, then er....

[Sylv3r]

Yes, I got it and won £5,000.

[crc-ict]

I got it too, although I won $300,000 from Yahoo. Similar theme though.

 

Muppets.