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"Microsoft Promotion Award Team‏" Lottery or Sweepstakes Scam

The email message below: "Microsoft Promotion Award Team," which claims the recipients are lottery winners in the Microsoft and AOL sweepstakes, is a lottery scam. Please do not respond to the email message with your personal information. The email message is a fake and was sent by lottery scammers. There is no Microsoft and AOL lottery or sweepstakes.

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Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and sending money.

Remember, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message, unless you are able to verify that the sender or email message is legitimate.

The "Microsoft Promotion Award Team" Phishing Email Message

Subject: Microsoft Promotion Award Team

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes. We rolled out over 100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pound Sterling) for our Anniversary Draws. Participants for this draw were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. Your email address has subsequently won you 2,000,000.00 GBP (Two Million Great Britain Pound Sterling) as one of the jackpot winner in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of 2,000,000.00 GBP (Two Million Great Britain Pound Sterling).

To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent with your

Name:
Tel:
Address:

Stated below are the details of your Fiduciary agent.

You are to contact him via email:claims101@qq.com

Mr. Roy Henshaw

Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Head Sweepstakes Organising Committee.
Email:claims101@qq.com

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