Please see email of winning a lottery - Is this Hoax ?


Microsoft® Award Team/Claims Office
Microsoft Corporation
#1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052.
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Dear Nereio N. Francia,


We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the 5 winners selected on this month.The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows." Microsoft® Award"



Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Microsoft Windows.I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on-line winners.

A winning cheque has been issued in your name by the Microsoft Lottery Incoperation board and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winnings cheque.



You are therefore advice to choose from the below delivery option and re-confirmed your receiving address, our delivery department will proceed in sending your winning cheque to you after you have choose from the option below;



Please Re-confirmation your delivery address;

Contact Name:___________________________
Residential Address:______________________
City:____________________________________
State/Province/County:_____________________
Postal Code:_____________________________
Country:_________________________________
Telephone Ext.:___________________________
E-mail:__________________________________
Choose from delivery option below:____________________________




DELIVERY OPTIONS;
(Overnight Service)
Shipping and handling - 220 Pounds Sterling
Insurance - 310 Pounds Sterling
Value added Tax- 40 Pounds sterling
Total amount to be paid - £570 pounds Sterling

(2nd Day by air)
Shipping and handling - 160 Pounds Sterling
Insurance - 265 Pounds Sterling
Value added Tax- 30 Pounds sterling
Total amount to be paid - £455 pounds Sterling

(3 Business days)
Shipping and handling - 130 Pounds Sterling
Insurance - 215 Pounds Sterling
Value added Tax- 20 Pounds sterling
Total amount to be paid - £365 pounds Sterling

(To make a currency conversion click on)
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Number of Packages: 1 PKT
Package worth :...( Amount Won)
Package content:
Delivery time :...( time of recipient's availability)



The Microsoft Windows lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, this friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

This office will not be responsible for any outstanding fees. Services rendered by the Courier Services are to be paid by you and not the lottery board, for the fact that the lottery organisers didn't make any provision for any upcoming expenses, regarding delivery of parcel or any such.

Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from because a cheque has already ben issue in your name, also this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value .This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

Congratulation once more!!!

Yours in service,
Barr. Arthur James Esq.
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Head Winning Claims Dept

Tell:+44-702-401-0953
Tell:+44-703-196-2902
Fax:+44-700-606-2425
Open 7days-24hrs-365days

The first email was sent to me by Microsoft Lottery Incorporation" <[email protected]. I was told to complete some information and to forward it to Adam Stockwim [email protected] he said that I won and that i need to contact the courier company to know how much I would have to pay to claim my prize money - Morgan Cole" <[email protected].

I thought it was a scam from starters... but I thought I'd check... in no lottery in the world... you need to pay money whatever amount it is... to get your money... so if you get that kind of offer... beware!!!