Attn, regulars - "MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY" (does such a thing exist?)

Just recieved an e-mail - it's a spinal reaction here to zap'em as they
arrive, but I am always curious when MS is being referred to in "official"
sounding language.

Any comments?



Tony. . .

 

In message <> "Tony Sperling"

Stick with your first reaction.

 

Tony - Never. Ever. Click on or actually even READ that stuff. It's exactly
what it smells like. Putrid SPAM.

 

I wouldn't dream of making contact, of course. I have lost count of the
number of millions of dollars that I have ignored (while sleeping quite
soundly!) but I keep wondering about the number of missuses of a well
guarded trademark name that just happens to cross my path and I am pretty
well guarded as it is, I think.

The worst kind are the pop-up's, off of regular sites that is attaching to
regular MS advertizing, that tells the unsuspected casual user that his PC
is infected with something and need some sort of scanning job (not an MS
one, of course!)

If the people behind such scam is expecting a 'catch', they will have to
stay up long enough for Microsoft to have time to react - I don't feel
personally offended, but the risk and danger is offending and I would like
to hear if anybody thinks MS might be doing something - because we don't
hear about anything being done, right? Not critical of MS, nor of this NG,
perhaps critical that no knowledge is being spread about any counteractions.
It would be comforting to have some sort of insight.


Tony. . .

 

Hi I thought you might like to know I just got one from microsoft for a
million and one from chevron for 5.5 million lol .Is there not a way these
companies can stop the spam letters?

 

Hi,
I just received the following:

Microsoft Award Team
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United A Kingdom.
Batch: 12/25/0340

Dear Winner
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of five hundred
thousand pounds(£500,000) for New Year Edition 2008 Lottery promotion
which is organized by WINDOWS LIVE &
MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of people that are
active online, among the millions that subscribed to Hotmail we only
select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the
people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact your Claims Agent with immediate effect to faciliate the
protocol of your winning prized before the date of Claim,Winners Shall be paid
in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre Prize must be claimed not later
than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize
has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.These are
your identification numbers:

Batch number....................12/25/0340
Reff number.......................Ref:MSN-L/200-26937
Winning number...................YM09788

To begin your claim please contact our licensed and accredited agent assigned
to you

MR. Terry Martins
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email:
Tel: +44-703-199-9833
Fax: +44 870 471 6651

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the claims
agent
to facilitate them and in order for them to have access in proceeding with the
tranaferred of your funds to your nominated bank account.

1. Full name .............
2. Country..............
3. Contact Address..........
4.. Telephone Number ......
5. Marital Status .........
6. Occupation .............
7. Company .............
8. Age...................

Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw
Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed
within this period will be forfeited.

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,
Mrs Felicia James
(Operation Manager)
Has anyone recieved anything like this and can it possibly be true! They do
not ask for bank accounts or any other vital info just name address etc.
Please help, I don't know if I should respond or not and do not know where to
go to see if it real.

 

Read from the top - nobody gives money away for nothing! Even lottery
tickets you have to buy - what you may win is supplied by all the losers!

This is nothing but a blatant scam. It works pretty much the way they
describe - they have computers scanning i-net traffic for e-mail adresses.
If you respond, they know they found an actual person and they sell your
adress to spammers, if not worse?

Ignore it, and they don't know if they made contact with another robot, your
adress may be discarded at best.

It's depressing enough that they found you, do not reward them by sending
anything back!

In "The three Musceteers" - Alexandre Dumas towards the very end, puts these
words into the mouth of Aramis (if I'm not mistaken), and the object is
Mylady:

"The power of her Evil is in the the fact that she understands love".

Do not respond!!!


Tony. . .