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Is this a fake - if so can you do something about it? Cheers, Joe Taylor London SW1E 5JL England UNITED KINGDOM FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION. It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held in London, United Kingdom Were email address was randomly selected from over Three million email addresses of different people around the world without their knowledge and your email address emerged as one of the online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of Ј850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty Thousand pounds sterling). Our winners are arranged into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly in each category. They are arranged in this format below: CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES 1st. 2 Ј900,000.00 pounds each 2nd. 8 Ј850,000.00 pounds each 3rd. 13 Ј650,000.00 pounds each 4th. 27 Ј470,000.00 pounds each We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you. For verification purpose be sure to include the following: (1) Your Full Names. (2) Your Tel/Fax numbers. (3) Your Nationality/Country. (4) Your contact address. (5) ****. (6) Age. (7) Occupation. (8) Your Preferred Method of Receiving Your Price (From Below) Mode of Price Remittance. (1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to U.k Personally to Pick Your Price). (2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other Winning Documents safely to you. It is important to note that your award information was released with the following particulars attached to it.. (1) These are your identification numbers: MCS-26799/097 (2) Award numbers: MCS-26799/097 (3) Email ticket numbers: EAASL-130877 (4) Batch numbers: MC11/834/8PDH /EU (5) The file reference numbers: HL/5574/41/07/MICS {6} Serial Numbers: McST/006/NL46560 To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, quote the following numbers above to the Microsoft Promotional claims manager who will by duty guide you on the step to take in collecting your prize. **************************************************************** FOREIGN CLAIMS MANAGER MR.GILBERT SCHOLES MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK). Phone: +44 702 403 5809 FAX: +44 752 198 4793 E-mail: *** Email address is removed for privacy *** Alt E-mail; *** Email address is removed for privacy *** **************************************************************** The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by Microsoft Management, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Acer Computers, and a consortium of software promotion companies, The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies such as Yahoo, British airways, Google. The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide. Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS! Sincerely, MRS.Isabella Taylor. M.S.PRO. ZONAL COORDINATOR.

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