A series of fishy e-mail called Microsoft promotion award team 2007 continue to attack my Gmail Inbox after I posted an entry about it in this blog the good news is the saga has already stopped now. If we think logically, how can we win a lottery if we didn’t enter any? Even when it’s from Microsoft or the lottery is real, winning lottery is certainly not a good way of getting money to feed our family in my opinion.
Anyway, I’m still receiving other similar e-mail that have the characteristic of the Nigerian scams in my inbox which make me question the reliability of Gmail service that I’m using right now.
Usually, the message claims that the recipient can be legally as next of kin to a person who died intestate and thereby inherit a large sum of money. A good laugh if we think of it in other way since the scammers don’t have any idea other than writing such e-mails. As far as I concern, they has existed since few years ago and it looks like the scammers tend to use the same ‘template’ again and again.
Recent e-mail that I receive is quite different though; one claims that he’s an Iraqi ex-soldier and willing to give a share if we help him to move his money abroad. 
June 11th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Im tired of these people trying get your money they dont know the internet tell us everything about fraud
How we can stop this…
June 29th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Hi
I have been receiving similar type of emails that i have won some lottery or something!
Firstly, if anyone can answer my query, in the excitement of the moment if we send them some information about ourselves, though i was lucky they didnt ask me to send money nor did they ask me about my account details, but if we have furnished our address to them and phone nos. what is the maximum risk we are at?
After the excitement was over, my brain’s logics started working and i searched for such lottery related details and found this site wherein my doubts are cleared…. thanks friends for such sites are really informative and eye openers!!
If anyone has any idea please let me know what happens if they have little detail about me?
Thanks
Sandhya,
New Delhi, India
June 29th, 2007 at 2:40 am
glendalys pedraza: not sure though.. There are many scammers in the internet and I think it’s difficult for FBI to trace all of them at a short period.
sandhy: you’re welcome. Sometimes, the scammers use data gathered from certian website to steal our informations via online form, script, etc.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I got one of your mails claiming that am a winner in your one of your draws dated 10th april 2007, i want to knoew if these thing is TRUE!!
July 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am
and what can happen if you gave the information that they want?
July 17th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I think it is the most terriblr scam to make people believe that they have won money. Microsoft should do anything to stop this as it is truely damaging to their image.
July 28th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
I got one of your mails claiming that am a winner in your one of your draws dated 21st july 2007,they have asked me to contact the interlink courier express.The interlink courier express have send me a mail containing the varification certificate and also to deliver courier charges of USD 823.816. I want to know if these thing is TRUE!
August 5th, 2007 at 1:58 am
I was informed through an email that I am one of the six winners of ‘YAHOO MICROSOFT 2007 AWARD PROMOTION’. They asked me to contact Dr. Mark Waltesr Address: 23 Bedford Row, High OBSborn, London, WC!R $EB, England. there is also his email address and they requested my some personal informations.
I like to know if this lottery is true? If not then can you stop all these nonsense.
Thanking you.
August 5th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
hi
I have been receiving similar type of emails that i have won some lottery or something!
Firstly, if anyone can answer my query, in the excitement of the moment if we send them some information about ourselves, though i was lucky they didnt ask me to send money nor did they ask me about my account details, but if we have furnished our address to them and phone nos. what is the maximum risk we are at?
After the excitement was over, my brain’s logics started working and i searched for such lottery related details and found this site wherein my doubts are cleared…. thanks friends for such sites are really informative and eye openers!!
If anyone has any idea please let me know what happens if they have little detail about me?
Thanks
subhash,
New Delhi, India
August 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
i had same thing ,then i gave them my name address and phone number after they ask me to sent sum of 980 pound .. my asnswer ((plz deducte it from my winning prize )) after i didnot hear nothing frm them that is all my friends .. thank y for this website
September 11th, 2007 at 10:24 am
i was sent a form stating i won.A microsoft cash prize.I want to know, why is it so easy for me to win and hard to recieve?I would appreciate it if these e-mails would stop coming if there not true.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Hi judah adeyemi i am one of the winner for this year and i want to fill the form but i don’t know how to go throught the website please help
thanks
September 11th, 2007 at 11:24 am
please am steel their pls put me throught how i can use to fill the form
September 25th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Good thing I saw this Blog!
I did a research first before anything else,
before sending any infos…
Thankyou very much for posting all of this…
I’m Angeli from Manila,
Just received an email from “Micosoft!”??
it almost deceived me! Almost!
A lot of people should be warned about this.
Here are some of the informations:
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Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:41:25 +0000
“AGENT MR DAN GRIFFITH”
Subject: FILL AND RETURN FOR PROCESSING
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Microsoft Corporation
#1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052.
Customer Service and Award Department
Reference No:FL/668530092 Batch No: 452006/14/FIFA06/FL.
(Customer Services)
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MICROSOFT AWARD PROMO wrote:
CONGRATULATION
You are No(5)you won(1,000.000.00GBP)
so we need you to send us this details for processing
1.Full name:
2.Contact address:
3.Tel:
4.Occupation:
5.Nationality:
Contact:
Mr.Dan Griffith
E-mail:mrdangriffith.msft2@hotmail.com
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Mr.Dan Griffith
Microsoft Promotion Fiduciary Agent.
Head Winning Claims Dept.
Phone:(+44) 7045716981
Email:
mrdangriffith.msft2@claimsagent-uk.com
mrdangriffith.msft2@hotmail.com
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it’s a waste of time!
it should really be igOred.
nOW I’m at peace…
Godbless Everyone.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:57 am
i gave them my name address and phone number, and then they asked me to send the bank account number, but I went to the manager of HSBC bank and he told to be ware of this because its fake, so I sent an email and asked them for official letter but they did’nt reply so what to do ?
October 16th, 2007 at 3:15 am
I just want to ask if there are really such things as Microspft promotion Award Team Lotterry or any such lottery sponsored by microsoft?
Scamming for money is such a global and diverse thing. I think the best thing we could do being recepients of these garbage mails is just delete it outright.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Bottom line: let’s not fall on this kind of thing. As simple as that. Though, it wasn’t so simple the first time I got this kind of mail.
It was like, wow! Good thing, the amount was in pounds. Who would give away a 12 digit cash just like that?
November 10th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Had an e-mail telling me i had won the microsoft lottery from George Owen, how do they manage to keep getting away with this?
January 25th, 2008 at 2:03 am
all these r bull shit they palying mind game with so we just wait for money and do nothing else i think they should put full stop on this nonsense.
really they should do some thing about this
September 6th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
thank god