Today morning when I checked my Gmail account, there was one email from Microsoft that I won jackpot of  £1,000 000 . This is one of phishing email sent by some fake person. Daily thousands of people receiving such fake emails by spammers. People new to internet must be aware of such fake emails and should not share any personal information or bank details for such prices money. These are fake emails sent by spammers to steal your personal data or bank account details. Beaware of such phishing email and don’t share any information.

Let’s share this information with all our friends so no one get fooled by such fake emails. Here is the detailed email.

From: Microsoft Award Team.2009 <albert.emirian@numericable.fr>
Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Subject: Contact Email:enquiry_msnclaimsdept03@yahoo.com.hk. For Claims
To: info@yahoo.com

Dear: e-Mail Winner,

The WINDOWS LIVE & MICROSOFT WINDOWS has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking the beginning of year anniversary. We rolled out over 10,000.000.00 (10 million e-mails) to mark the 2009 Anniversary Draws.Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their BETA patronage attaching personalized email addresses to ticket numbers.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to TICKET No:20511465463-7644 with SERIAL No:S/N-00168 and drew the LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83(20) which subsequently won you (One Million Pounds Sterling)(£1,000 000) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw.

Please contact our fiduciary agent for claims with the contact below
Agent.

Dr. Pinkett Griffin
Email:enquiry_msnclaimsdept03@yahoo.com.hk

1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Phone Number:
6.Country:

Congratulation!!

Sincerely,
Maggie Bausch

If you check From address of email sender you will notice it’s not sent by Microsoft email address.

Lets spread awareness..

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