so I got this supposed email from Microsoft saying I won somethin?

[92cb7accord]

tell me what you guys think about this? I have no idea lol sounds like a scam or somethin stupid




Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10,United Kingdom.
Ref:BTD/931/06
Batch: 051729K


Dear Lucky winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully
organised a Sweepstakes marking the end of year anniversary we rolled
out over 100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for
our end
of year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly
selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their
patronage.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching
personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.Microsoft and AOL are
now the
largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet
Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are
running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number

with serial numbers and drew the lucky
numbers which subsequently won you 100,000.000.00
(One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) as one of the
jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning
sum of 100,000.000.00(One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) .
Please be informed by this winning notification,to file your claims,you
are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide

you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize.To file
for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent
Mr. Kelly Allan
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Head Winning Claims Dept.
Email:
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We
wish you the best of luck.Thank you for being part of our promotional
award program and commemorative Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,
Dr.Olivia Holland
Head Customercare Service
Microsoft Promotion Team

[NAiL05]

It should be pretty obvious...I remember getting these a long ass time ago in the 90s.

[cp[mike]]

MS and AOL are both american companies, why would they be using european currency and spelling (organised/organized and personalised/personalized)

but yes this scams been floating around for over a decade...

[lil_dcb7]

find out who sent it and punch them in the face.

win

[MadSpleen85]

Don't even reply or you are only going to get more. Replying to one of these emails lets them know that they have found a valid and active email address to annoy.

No response leads them to believe that your email address is not active, or you have half a brain and realize a scam when you see one. They may not send to it as much. They will still occasionally send but it will not be 30+ similar emails a day.

I know my little sister got one of these a couple of months back and she replied to it. She was getting all kinds of SPAM emails until she finally just closed that email account and started a new one.. Later

[gloryaccordy]

Not to mention 100,000,000 Euros is an unbelievable amount of money, 1 Euro = $2,000, 100 million Euros = the American economy

[ExplodingCake]

Spam!!!

[Gemini]

Not to mention 100,000,000 Euros is an unbelievable amount of money, 1 Euro = $2,000, 100 million Euros = the American economy

x2

[Mista Juice]

sounds legit.. go for it!

[sandman61377]

Not to mention 100,000,000 Euros is an unbelievable amount of money, 1 Euro = $2,000, 100 million Euros = the American economy

1. It says Pounds, not Euros. They're not the same.
2. 1 Euro is about $1.36 American, today. (exchange rates can change daily)
3. 1 Pound is about $2 American today. So thats over $200,000,000.
4. The only reason large companies give away money as prizes is to generate interest in their products/services/company. They don't conduct secret random drawings that nobody knows about. If this were legit, it would have been advertised by Microsoft heavily and also would have been all over the news. If you did contact this person (if there actually is someone to contact), they would probably instruct you to send money (most likely via Western Union or MoneyGram) to someone as a "processing fee."
You never, ever have to pay out money to collect a prize from a lottery/drawing.
Just after you've collected, and then its called taxes.