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There is No "Microsoft Search Lotto Promotion" - it is a Lottery Scam
There is No Microsoft Search Lotto Promotion - it is a Lottery Scam

There is no Microsoft Search Lotto Promotion. Therefore, recipients of email messages which claim that they are winners in the same promotion or lottery should delete the email messages and should not follow the instructions in them. This is because the email messages are fakes being sent by lottery scammers, who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them their personal information and money in order to receive some so-called lottery prize.

A Sample of the "Microsoft Search Lotto Promotion" Lottery Scam

From: REF:SDN. BHD <nguyentragiang@tdt.edu.vn>

To:

Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2017 2:34 PM

Subject: ***Payment***

2017 ASIA MICROSOFT NOTIFICATION

Ref No: BTD/008/BING

M-S-0XCVC—Batch:401978G

This is to Inform you that your email has been chosen as part of the winners in the Microsoft search lotto promotion @ www.bing.com

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of USD 2, 000,000.00 (TWO MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) only. Your email address emerged along side with 199 others as a category of winner in this 2017 annual draw.

Batch number.....................A%(ZX1978G)

Reff number.......................SFN/B12411

Winning number...................SFN/74-1661-W7

Please check your email to find out the instructions.

PLEASE REPLY TO: <MICRO546677SOFT@qq.com> ONLY!

(CONTACT THE PAYMENT REMITTANCE DIRECTOR.)

Name:Dr Michelle Rivera

Remittance Director

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