[xtremee]

Hi all

i have receive e-mail with title MICROSOFT PROMOTION YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON!!! and this mail taking about that i won money here is that part of this mail

Quote

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,the
results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT PROMOTION
INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a
winner under the FirstCategory, which is part of
our promotional draws. The draws are being officially
announced today 24th of October,2006. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies
from Africa,America Asia,Australia,Europe,Middle East,and
Oceania as part of our International Promotions
Program.Your e-mail address,attached to ticket number
xx-xxx-xx, with serial number xxxx-xx drew
the lucky numbers x-xx-x-xx-x-xx and consequently won in
the First Category.You have therefore been awarded alump
sum pay out of 1,000,000(One MillionEuros), which is the
winning payout for Category A winners.This is from the
total prize money 1,500,000 shared among the two winners
in this category.

and i asked for send a claim e-mail to mail attached in this mail with my reference number

and i did

I wanna to know if this Real or Fake!!

This post has been edited by xtremee: 25 October 2006 - 12:22 PM

[Tarun]

Looks fake to me. Poor grammar and everything in it as well. Notice how there are no spaces after the commas for each continent/area?

[CoffeeFiend]

That's definitely spam, no doubts about it. Hope you didn't email 'em or anything, in which case you'll have confirmed your email address is valid, and you'll be getting 100x more spam.

[Noise]

I'm sure Microsoft loves giving money away on "contests" like this one. It fits right in with their business model.

[Martin L]

spam

[RJARRRPCGP]

Martin L, on Oct 25 2006, 04:34 PM, said:

spam

I agree. That looks like one of the spam E-mails I got. It's appearing that I may be required to have my internet service account deleted and get a different internet service account, because I'm getting non-stop spam E-mails.

The majority of the E-mails are porn-related.

This post has been edited by RJARRRPCGP: 25 October 2006 - 03:32 PM

[CoffeeFiend]

Nois3, on Oct 25 2006, 03:28 PM, said:

I'm sure Microsoft loves giving money away on "contests" like this one. It fits right in with their business model.

Yet, you wouldn't believe how much people fall for such stupid things. I remember one that said that Bill Gates would give a portion of his fortune or something to people who would forward an email. Nevermind that it would be a totally stupid thing for him to do. But I've seen mail servers brought to their knees because to much people (hundreds of them) forwarded that one message to hundreds more. The simple message (like 1 sentence) quickly grew over a MB with all the headers and stuff quoted (multiply that by a few thousand copies...) There are idiots out there falling for the simplest things. Just like spam is not going to end anytime soon, just because there's a bunch of idiots who buy junk from spam emails (diet pills or what not), making it profitable. As some already said, I propose we take warning labels off, and let the problem solve itself

[gamehead200]

It's fake.

[sylvianorth]

Totally agree with you crahak.
It's those idiots who fill my inbox with junk. Spam filters aren't the answer, eduction is. Brutal education

[EchoNoise]

Yep, Sure is!

[nitroshift]

sylvianorth, on Oct 25 2006, 10:29 PM, said:

Brutal education

/me gets a baseball bat

[Mamoun]

Microsoft never writes an e-mail with All-Capital-letters subject

Just like the spam I get, I get an e-mail weekly telling me that Microsoft will cost for using msn messenger, But If you forwarded this e-mail to 10 persons you will use it for free

[nitroshift]

All e-mails sent by M$ end this way:

Quote

This communication was sent by the Microsoft Corporation
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington, USA
98052

This post has been edited by nitroshift: 27 October 2006 - 12:45 PM

[prx984]

*gets the board of education!*

that is fake for sure, i have 16 of them in my spam folder

This post has been edited by Cygnus: 27 October 2006 - 02:09 PM

[LLXX]

The most definitive way is to see what address and where it was emailed from.

(most of) the header information can be forged, but look up the IPs in the Recieved: lines since those can't be easily faked - example: I can send an email, and at the very top or the bottom of the Recieved list (can't remember which one, I think it was the top...) you'll find something like

Recieved: from [xx.xx.xx.xx] by xx.xx.xx.xx

Where the first xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP of the machine that initially sent the mail, and the second is the IP of the first mail relay. I can insert my own Recieved: headers to disguise my IP as a mail relay, but my IP will still show up in the headers. In your case, you can check the IPs there to see if they seem logical - mails from M$ will always emerge from some M$-owned IP, and then go either into your ISP's mailserver or one of the mail relays of the internet main backbone. If you see any other IPs there then it's probably faked.

[xtremee]

i receive another mail as i confirm the first

see this


this is the contain of spam series



And this is the application in the attachment

Plz, Read the last of this application you will find

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You will be required to pay our compulsory notarization/legalization as a non resident fee of €420 euro to enable us legalised your wining file in area court of justice here in Netherlands and send your claim . file to the paying bank

Attached File(s)

•  MICROSOFT_VERIFICATION_PAYMENT_FORM.doc (56K)
  Number of downloads: 7

This post has been edited by xtremee: 27 October 2006 - 04:42 PM

[CoffeeFiend]

So it's not just spam, it's actually a 419... I thought they were only gathering addresses. I had never seen that one before, but it looks like you're not the only one.

[LLXX]

Hmm... http://www.google.com/search?q=644749864&a...tart=0&sa=N

[utw-Mephisto]

People paying this kind of money are in serious ... well ... trouble I guess

[Martin L]

xtremee no need to worry... its totally fake...

first microsoft doesnt have its office there, but their office is here:

Microsoft BV
Boeingavenue 30
1119PE Schiphol-Rijk

as for the telephone number.... its fake too... we always have 0031- and then 9 numbers, Amsterdam starts with 020, so the number should start with 003120 and then the other 7 numbers The official number of Microsofts office in Schiphol-Rijk is 0031205001500

Furthermore... Lisbeth van Groot sounds dutch but if she was really dutch her name would be Liesbeth van Groot....

So enough reasons why this email is FAKE..

hope this helps you

PS i never saw such a n00b document from Microsoft either.... not even a logo on it man hehe