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An Email with the Subject "YOUR MAIL HAVE WON YAHOO AWARDS 2008!!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:49:55 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY"<winner@microsoftlotto.org>.
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Fighting Poverty Round The World
FROM:
THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY
61-70 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury
London,
United -Kingdom WC1B 4AR.
REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH NO: 2008JULYTL#22
WINNER NO: 5
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER
UNITED KINGDOM
WINNING NOTIFICATION !
Dear Lottery Winner,
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Million, Five hundred Thousand
Pounds Sterling (GBP 5,500,000.00) in cash Credited to file REF NO: YBM-WBS-200804522AF this is
from total prize money of GBP 27,500,000.00 POUNDS, shared among the Twenty-five [25 ] lucky
international winners in first and second category.
in the YEAR 2008 YAHOO! Lottery promotion which is organized YAHOO! LOTTERY INC,AOL.COM and
HOTMAIL for the introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO! BETA MAIL and Windows Live Mail Beta
which all YAHOO! And HOTMAIL subscribers are required to switch to.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are
active online, among the millions that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL .AOL and others we onl y s
elected THREE (3) candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection process through
Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate you for being
one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center . Yahoo Prize Award must be
claimedn no later than 21 days from&nbs p;date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within
this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
Batch number..................... 2008JULYTL#22
Reff number........................YBM-WBS-200804522AF
WINNER NO:......................... 5
Winning number...............YBM-WBS-200878AF
Now take the next step and claim your money and say
thanks to Yahoo! and Hotmail
We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account and Hotmail account.
These numbers above fall within the United Kingdom agent's Location file, you are requested to
contact
Rev.Dr Freeman Balo and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him: At his
e-mail
(PAYMASTER)
DR FREEMAN BALO
E-mail:(microsoftpayment_office_15@yahoo.co.uk)
TEL:+447031979713
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate them and process
the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so that he will proceed further
for your prize claim immediately:
PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full name...................
2. Country....................
3. Contact Address......
4. Telephone Number........
5. Marital Status.........
6. Occupation..............
7. Age..........................
8.Sex............................
Please be warned : For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Basheera Abubakar
United Kingdom Zonal Co-ordinator.
Mrs. Caro Smith
United Kingdom Zonal Secretary General.