MICROSOFT LOTTERY

#1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052.


Ref: BTD/968/08
Batch: 409978E
ATTN:XXXXXXXXX,

PAYMENT OPTIONS / DELIVERY PROCEDURE

This is in receipt of your mail and required data inclusive. Also the verification process has been completed. Your winning Cheque is 1.9 Million pounds . You are to contact our affiliate courier firm by email with your batch and reference numbers immediately for the delivery of your winning draft.

Have your winning certified draft couriered by our affiliate Courier firm to you personally so that you can take it to your local bank to cash.
Consequently, you have been directed to contact our affiliate courier firm by email with your batch and reference numbers immediately for the delivery of your winning draft.This certified cheque would be taken by you to any of your local Banks to cash or deposited in your Bank accounts as preferred by you. In this regard, you would contact the courier company and state your choice of delivery from the above listed option and also notify us on your most suited option.
Stated below is the courier contact details for immediate delivery.
Mr James Brown Peter,
Unit 98, Evens Business Center, Belgrave Street,
Bellshill Ind Est Bellshill, ML4 3NP
London,United Kingdom.
Tel: +44-(703) 590-0985(Fax: +44 (0) 870 121 5534
Email:[email protected]




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JN

A definite scam.

Thank you for posting this information. It will alert many potential victims.

A quick check on the UK postcode shows the address is bogus.

Belgrave Street, Bellshill, Lanarkshire is in Scotland = ML4 3NP

Also see here for search results on mail address.

Thanks for posting jn5318.

Microsoft themselves have a page indicating that there is NO such thing as a microsoft lottery, here: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourse ... ttery.mspx

The text on that page is:

Avoid the “Microsoft Lottery” phishing scam
Updated: October 28, 2008
Microsoft customers are often targets of a scam, which uses false e-mail messages that promise that you have won "The Microsoft Lottery."

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 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.

If you have lost money to this scam, you should report it. You can also send the police report to Microsoft and we will use it to help law enforcement catch the criminals who send out these e-mails. For more information, see Report Microsoft lottery fraud. You can use the same general guidance that you use to protect yourself from phishing scams to help protect yourself from these e-mail hoaxes.

• Don't respond to suspicious e-mail messages.

• Don't click links in suspicious e-mail messages.

• Delete suspicious e-mail messages and move on.

• Report suspicious e-mail messages to the Anti-phishing Working Group.