i received the below e-mail
Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E

CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!

Dear Winner,

The prestigious Microsoft and Aol has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the year 2007 anniversary. Rolled out over £300,000,000.00 for our this year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies & in effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of (£1M) One million Pounds in cash credited to File KPC/9030108308/03.This is from a total cash prize of Three Hundred Million British Pounds (£300,000,000.00) shared among the first 450 lucky winners in this category world-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in London as indicated in the play coupon. The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 15th of November,2007.

Please be informed by this winning notification to file your claims immediately.You are advised to make contact to your referred agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your winning prize.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are 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.

To file for your claim, please contact your Claiming Agent immediately.

Name: Mr. Wilson Moore
Tel: 00447031821058
Eamil: [email protected]

We dedicate our special thanks & gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO. KINDLY CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT DIRECTLY ON [email protected] FOR FURTHER DIRECTIVES.


Microsoft Promotion Team
Vice President.


Please provide the following details for processing of your claim.

VERIFICATION FORM
1, Names in full:
2, Country of Residing:
3, Nationality:
4, Contact Address:
5, Date of Birth/Age:
6, Marital Statue/Sex:
7, Tel/Fax:
8, Mobile No:
9, Occupation:
10, Company:
11, Amount Won:
12, Email address:
13, Ref No:
14, Batch No:

This is to certify this award and also acknowledge the receipt of your details/information which is quite clear. In the course of this promotion email addresses were selected from different websites at random all over the globe. A draw was made after which there emerged 450 lucky winners of different categories and your email address happen to be among the Eighteen lucky winners under 2nd category.

Participants were selected through a referral program and winners were picked by a computer ballot system drawn form 100,000,00 companies and individuals names from World Wide Web site Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East and North America.



It is true and genuine that your e-mail address have won you £1M, 000,000 (One Million British Pounds) in the Microsoft/Aol Lottery Promotion.

Well, all due processes have been concluded to effect the payment of your prize money including the issuance of the Award Winning Certificate. (Pls.see the attachment File)



Payment approval will be granted on your behalf through our paying Bank and also, an authorization has been given to our corresponding paying bank by the National Treasury for the transfer of your prize money.

Meanwhile, our paying bank is processing the payment of your prize money for onward payment to your nominated account. You are hereby requested to forward to the paying bank your full account details where your winning prize money will be transferred.



Paying Bank Email Contact Details:



ALPHA BANK



[email protected]

[email protected]

Tel/Fax: +44 700 597 682



We hope to receive a quick response from you as time is of essence to this regard.

Congratulations once more and have a wonderful day. Kindly understand that we are expecting your call as soon as you acknowledge this mail as it is deemed important. (+44- 7031821058)



Yours truly,



Wilson Moore.

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and i think it is a fake email