I agree something has to be done...

I personally have never been scammed on this item below. I personally have never been scammed at all. But hear about this issue all the time.

Sorry for this long email. But I feel strong about this issue below.

But I'm certainly getting fed up with the amount of emails I receive from these scams. I know it is easy to just delete it. But why should I have to even receive one in the first place. The more I read other peoples stories I was infuriated about how many people were scammed.

I was mugged and robbed four times in my life. I was nearly killed a couple of times. Talk about bad luck. The police caught two of the four. Which is nice. I'm pretty upset about criminals.

We as civilians in our country can do something about this particular scam.

It is too bad Microsoft doesn't track these people down. Is there any laws to send these people to prison? The prey on naive people, which isn't nice at all.

The more people who complain to the ombudsman of Microsoft and of the consumer ombudsman or the ombudsman of you're country or province/state. For example I live in Canada and we have a consumer ombudsman and provincial ombudsman in each province and for all of the country.

Example; Canadians in the Province of British Columbia thousands of people were complaining to Canada's Ombudsman about a telephone company by the name of Telus. The complaints were about their poor service and long waits for customer service when a customer tried to call in for assistance. Telus was forced to act on building better customer care for their clients.

Another example; seniors were targets of a scam in Canada. The company targeted seniors and said they won $100, 000 dollars and you just have to give me you're credit card number, bank account number or send us a money order for X amount of dollars. Many people complained to the ombudsman and the issue has been tackled.

Ombudsman protect the right of the people when it comes to scams and complaints. In this case this has to do with not only insurance companies, banks, people and Microsoft, it has to do with the people. Us! We are consumers on the internet and sometimes things look so legitimately right people fall for scams. We need to stand up for ourselves. I'm lucky that I worked for a bank and witnessed every scam in the book. I'm now working in Film and love to tell stories on screen. We need to stand up for ourselves and make sure this complaint gets out to our leaders in our home countries and to companies who too get effected. Such as you're personal bank, Microsoft and insurance companies who sometimes fit the bill for scams...

So write a short letter to you're ombudsman and too Microsoft's ombudsman. Let's do this together and catch these jerks. And Maybe the law can increase jail time for these criminals. We need to have heavy laws for these criminals.

Let's do this together. Our voice must be heard. Many innocent people are targets and lose money they really don't have. Let's put a stop to these criminals...

Email I recieved:
Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10, United Kingdom.
Batch number: 12/25/0340
Reff number: MSN-L/200-26937
Winning number: YM09788


Microsoft Award Notification

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