Today, I just received a suspicious mail from saorg_00015@msn.com in my hotmail account. It seems like a scam. The title of this mail is “CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL WAS SELECTED BID-SA 2010@LOTTERY“. It is about 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP held in South Africa, but I am not very interested in this, as first I do not have enough money for the round-trip ticket, and second, I believe that you will get nothing without pay anything.
Below is the detail of this mail. Please pay attention to this type of scam.
FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR
{MICROSOFT GLOBAL E-MAIL LOTTERY}
MRS. MARIE STEVE
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FILE REF:HL/8121/31/11/MICS
BATCH: MC44/707/3PDH /EU
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Dear Winner,
It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the e-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in conjunction with the Bill Gates foundation for the promotion of BID-SA 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP that was held recently held here in South Africa.
Wherein your electronic email address emerged as one of the online winning emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of USD$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States Dollars). Our winners are arranged into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly in each category.
We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.
It is important to note that your award information was released with the following particulars attached to it:
(1) Award numbers: NL 62/7811
(2) Email ticket numbers: NL901/33/65
(3) Batch numbers: MC44/707/3PDH /EU
(4) The file reference numbers: HL/8121/31/11/MICS
(5) Serial Numbers:McST/030/NL0981
For verification purpose be sure to include the following information’s to us in your reply:
(1) Your mailing address:…………………………
(2) Your Telephone(Mobile):……………………..
(3) Your Nationality/Country:…………………….
(4) Your Full Names:………………………………
(5) Your age:………………………………………..
(6) Your sex:………………………………………..
To file for your claim, Please contact our claims manager:
CONTACT
*******************************************************************
CLAIMS MANAGER
MR. VICTOR BARR
TELEPHONE:+27- 731 – 324 -667
E-MAIL: victorbarr001@live.com
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The Microsoft Internet e-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our consortium of software promotion companies. The Intel- Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies. The Microsoft internet e-mail draw is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote BID-SA 2010@LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Marie Steve
Online co-ordinator
Bidsa2010@Lottery .
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Yes it is SPAM. i’ve been receiving too many spams lately, but as long as you dont touch em – you will be safe
Yes, you’re right. I opened the attachment in Google Docs, I think that is a safe way to open suspicious files. Anyway, thanks for your advice:)
2 million dollars~~~~~oh my!
If interested enough, you should turn to Microsoft for validating it first.
In my opinion, it is a spam.
Yes, it’s amazing, but I don’t think I’m lucky enough to gain such great wealth, so huh, I ignore it. Bye, my money~~~~
Please, can you PM me and tell me few more thinks about this, I am really fan of your blog…gets solved properly asap.
@Haraye
But what do you want me to reply?
With all the companies listed at the bottom and Microsoft’s name used, have you told any of them or inquired as to how their names are being used for such a purpose?
@deja
Sorry, I am not very clear what you want to say.
Without comment, I receive the like message,on my skype email, as follow:
[15-10-2009 11:53:28] sa.2010.lotto.award.promo: The
When I wrote to them for claiming my winning prize, the send me the email below:
De: South Africa Lottery Award
Assunto: find attached certificate and claim options
Para: sahisil9999@yahoo.com.br
Data: Quinta-feira, 15 de Outubro de 2009, 12:52
From Claims office JHB: Mr. Parker Derek
South Africa
Tel +27 837 439 987 +27 837 439 987
Attn : Sayi Hivena Da Silva
We write to acknowledge the receipt of your personal details for your lottery-winning claim. after duly screening/checks from our central computer, the lottery board has confirmed without doubt that you are among the beneficiaries of the lottery claim and has issued a winning certificate in your name for reference, we have also insured your winning prize to avoid misappropriate of your winning prize.
The prize is still valid with your skype user name in our computer ballot system as a winner for seven working days from today:
Procedure to claim a winning prize;
Option #1 to claim your winning prize money, you need to come down to our payment department office here in Johannesburg, South Africa for collection of your winning prize in person. You are required to be present with your identification such as your international passport within 7 days from today 15th October 2009. Please send a copy of your international passport or any form of your identifications to enable us confirms that you are the rightful winner on your arrival, to avoid paying to a wrong individual.
Option #2 opening of an account on your name, and issuing you an international debit card (ATM) so that you will have the access to withdraw winning prize in any part of the world.
Option #3 through swift electronic wire transfer, which will be done through bank to bank between the paying banks here in South Africa, directly to the receiving bank which is the bank you operate with in your country or any nominated bank of your choice.
Note: all email lottery prizes will be insured by a high cover federal insurance policy and thus there cannot be any deduction from your winning fund until the final destination of your choice to avoid misappropriate of winning funds as instructed by the authority.
All payout is in full amount for instrument of payment (ATM DEBIT CARD) or through direct wire transfers to any bank account of your choice. All processing cost for dispatching your (ATM DEBIT CARD) or bank transfer to you is to be paid by you, as they cannot be deducted from the winning prize as instructed by the authority for security purposes.
Therefore you are to notify us which (option 1, 2, 3) is best suitable for you to redeem your prize, for immediate processing and submission to the payment committee to commence the process of redeeming your lucky global mega million winning prize.
On behalf of the board of directors, members of staff and the international awareness promotion department of the global mega million promotions, we all are congratulating you once again as one of our lucky winner. Always keep your winning details confidential until you finally get your winning prize to avoid double claim and for security reasons, the attachment below is your winning certificate for reference.
Congratulation once more!
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Parker Derek
(Claim Agent)
It is only a Lie in wait or scam through internet. We must pay attention, because there is no such thing as something for nothing in this world. After searching in google.com, I descover that it was purely a lie by internet in order to pick up innoncent people.
@Sayi Hivena da Silva
I think you r right.
there are so many scams running on the internete so watch out’.`