I think this is fake, Please advise

I received this in my email today: I think it's fake but could not find any info on the web, so it may be new and I am amongst the first to get it? I don't know... but here is all the info I have.

From: "Dhawan, Amrit <[email protected]>"
Subject: Microsoft End Of Year Promo Winner

MICROSOFT AWARD PROMOTION DEPARTMENT
20 CRAVEN PARK, HARLESDEN LONDON
NW10, UNITED KINGDOM
DECEMBER 27, 2010

We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged as a winner in the final annual draw of our Microsoft International Award Programs. Your email address was selected by our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) from an exclusive list of 250,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies generated from an internet resource database. No tickets were sold.

Your email address is identified with Batch Number: P2/0056/2010 and Ticket Number: PP 3812 /2010-10 in Category "B" and your claims portfolio is filed with Ref Number: KPL/09-002/JA.You are therefore advised to receive a cash prize of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound) from the total payout.

Our mission as a company is to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. As the world’s largest software company, Microsoft helps to create social and economic opportunities by giving out award to our customers, and our day-to-day business and promotion make a meaningful contribution to the prosperity of our customer and the sustainability of the planet.

Technology has the power to create economic opportunity and jobs. Several critical factors—including incentives for creating intellectual property,Promotion and awards is the key to unlocking new opportunities—from healthcare and education to energy independence and climate change for our customers. Microsoft welcomes the opportunity to help achieve these important economic and social goals by giving out awards to our costumers around the world because promotion is one of the engine of global prosperity even when it is given to few people. We help drive today's technology research and development while we support tomorrow's technology innovators and businesses by giving awards to those people that uses MICROSOFT technology.

Since you have been choosen to partisipate in our Microsoft International Away Promotion, among the millions that uses Microsoft technology and services world wide, you are required to send your full information to Mr.Nicholas Moore email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> for verification as requested below.

Full Name:
Your Nationality:
Country Of Residence At Present:
Mobile Number:

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your prize award has been insured under a bonded depository policy with your e-mail address, and will be transferred to you upon meeting the claims requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained. Members of staff of affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours Faithfully,
Promotion Team Co-ordinator.

Welcome here Dvora.

Just google search for 'end of year promo winner' and you'll find lots of hits to scam warners websites! So yes, this is definatly a scam. Just ignore these e mails, and the scammer will leave you alone.

I also received the exact same email from the same address. Of course it is a scam. I have been duped only once, but it cost me $5. I held the postal money orders in my account for 2 weeks until they were confirmed as being fake. But boy did my bank account look great for 2 weeks! Of course they sent me numerous emails threatening all sorts of death and dis-memberment if I didn't send the remainder back to them from my account, but I never did......they finally stopped sending them. But I continually get more from everywhere. It really sux when you have an online business! So I am letting everyone know that these emails that ask for your information are all fake. If you have really won something, they have all your pertinant information.

The same scammer can also be seen here, http://seenmyway.blogspot.com/2010/11/2 ... promo.html

There are numerous scammers coming from sbcglobal.net if you were to do a search.

Domain Name: SBCGLOBAL.NET
Registrant:
SBC Internet Services, Inc.
1701 Alma dr
Plano, TX 75075
US

Southwestern Bell Internet Services
1701 Alma dr
Plano, TX 75075
US
phone: 504-846-7549
[email protected]

sbcglobal.net is just another mail provider like google, yahoo and hotmail. An email sent from such an adress has as much authority as an email sent from [email protected].