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An Email with the Subject "CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON ! ! !" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:03:22 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "MICROSOFT WINDOWS" <mrauthur_claimdept@consultant.com>.
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REPLY TO: mrauthur_claimdept@consultant.com This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred thousand Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for this month 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by MICROSOFT/AOL MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to microsoft. 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. You are to contact the events manager with the contact info below. These are your identification numbers: Batch number.....................MS09102XN Reff number.......................MS35447XN Winning number...................MA09788 CLAIMS REQUIREMENT FORM FULLNAME................................. WINNING NUMBER................... AMOUNT WON............................... DATE OF BIRTH............................ RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:………………………............ SEX...................................... MARITAL STATUS........................... COUNTRY OF ORIGIN........................ OCCUPATION............................... TELEPHONE................................. EMAIL.................................... INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION: (A) CHEQUE.......... (B) TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER(ONLINE TRANSFER)................ DATE.................................... THIS FORM IS TO ENABLE US HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIZE WINNER WHICH WILL BE FOWARDED TO OUR MANAGEMENT FOR YOUR TRANSFER OF FUND. PLEASE FILL IT AND SEND TO US FOR YOUR DOCUMENTS OF CLAIM. THE MANAGEMENT WILL PROCESS THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUNDS,YOUR FUND TOGETHER WITH YOUR WINNING CERTIFICATE SHALL BE DELIVERED TO YOU WHICH WE DEPENDS ON THE PAYMENT METHOD YOU WHICH TO RECEIVED YOUR FUND, HENCE YOU ARE TO CHOOSE FROM THE TWO METHOD OF PAYMENT ABOVE. Mr.Allen .M.Authur(Microsoft Promotion Award Team) Head Winning Claims Dept. E-MAIL: mrauthur_claimdept@consultant.com PHONE: :+447045704459. Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again! Sincerely, Dr.Olivia Holland Head Customercare Service Microsoft Promotion Team.