Microsoft Lottery - I won!!!

[Board Game Geek]

Grats Mr Churchy

[Spacecadet]

1st Prize - 1 Copy of Windows Vista
2nd Prize - 2 Copies of Windows Vista

a few years ago there was a bit of a protest by the beta testers for Visual Studio 2005.
The prizing structure for the Beta testers was something like:
The 10 best testers were all being given copies of Visual Studio 2005 professional (worth a few hundred quid)
The next 50 best beta testers were all being given an xbox for their efforts (worth a couple of hundred quid).

Given than VS comes on a few CD's which can be printed off for a few pence there was a general consensus that MS was not exactly being fair with its prize giving.

[SantaClaus]

I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent reason why they want a copy of your ID card too.

[AtW]

I'm confused - is it a weekly or yearly thing?

There's a sucker born every minute...

[NotAllThere]

I'm confused - is it a weekly or yearly thing?

[bogeyman]

No, they own HoTMaiL.

HTH

Whoosh..........

[AtW]

Anyone else think its odd that the microsoft person uses a hotmail address?

No, they own HoTMaiL.

HTH

[BrilloPad]

Anyone else think its odd that the microsoft person uses a hotmail address?

But I am sure its genuine and that at the XMAS do Churchill will be buying us all drinks....

[Diestl]

Lucky boy, probably have to send them your bank details so they can put the money in your account.

[DimPrawn]

1st Prize - 1 Copy of Windows Vista
2nd Prize - 2 Copies of Windows Vista

[AtW]

et tu Spod?

[Churchill]

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Congratulation!!! You Have Been Announced As One Of The 12 Top Lucky Winners..
You Have Won £1.5 Million Pounds Sterling!!!

Microsoft/MSN Lottery gives members random cash prizes every month. Today your mail is randomly selected as one of the 12 top winners mail who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterlings ( £1,500,000.00 GBP) for year 2009 lottery win promotion which is organized every weekend by Microsoft/MSN Lottery Board.

Microsoft, collects all the mail addresses of the people that are online and off line on Messenger, among the millions that subscribe to Yahoo, MSN,Gmail Messenger e.t.c we only select 12 TOP people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected to receive top cash prize for this month.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of ourinternational promotions program which is conducted annually.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your Winning Information and Identification Numbers:
Batch Number........................ .........MC/7645X/2009
Pin no......................................MML/631/85954/Z
Winning Numbers....................... ....ML007654
Reference Number.........................ML34355CD

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Yahoo/msn microsoft Claims officer, Wright Fernandez at this email address below.
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Mr Wright Fernandez (Claims Officer)
EMAIL: claimsdepartmentunity195@hotmail.co.uk
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You are required to forward your winning details via the above e-mail addresses.And note that you must send your information
to the above offices for verification purposes.
1. FULL NAME........
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.....
3. PRESENT ADDRESS..........
4. AGE.................
5. OCCUPATION...........
6. SEX....................
7. TELEPHONE NUMBER........
8. MARITAL STATUS.......
9. BATCH NUMBER.........
10. WINNING NUMBER........
11. REFERENCE NUMBER......
12. A VALID ID CARD......

Congratulations once again from me and all members and Staff of Microsoft/MSN Lottery INC!!

Yours Sincerely,
APPROVED
MELISA ROSS (PHD)
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.