If only ....

Recieved via email :wink:

Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10
United Kingdom
Ref No: BTD/973/11
Batch No: 409982E

Dear Winner,

    WINNING NOTIFICATION

The prestigious Micrsoft and Oracle has set out and sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the year 2007 anniversary we rolled out over 16,000.000.00(sixteen million Great Britain Pounds) for our end of 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. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and Oracle are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and Oracle in conjunction with yahoo mail are running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 00194 with reference no MSW1006/11 and draw numbers 17-24-28-43-44-51(24) which subsequently won you 900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 28 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of 900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Harlesden, London United Kingdom on the 20th of May,2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

Please be informed by this winning notification,to file your claims, you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize.To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent

Mr.Richard Maskery Patrick.
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Email: microsoft5award@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44 7024062567
+44 70359 03171
Fax +44-8704717894

You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications:

Full Names:
Age:
Occupation:
Country:
Ticket Numbers:
Batch Number:
Phone/fax numers:

As indicated in this winning Notification and Phone numbers.Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being part of our commemorative new year Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,
Mrs Lisa Brown
Microsoft Promotion Team

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Riiighhhtttā€¦ :roflmao:

And I bet MS employees use Yahoo as their mail supplier all the time for official mail. :rolleyes:

Have you tried phoning them?

Is that Microsoft in Nigeria?

And what the heck is a ā€œfiduciary agentā€? :slight_smile:

Sounds great, apply straight away, Iā€™m currently writing away to an african prince whoā€™s giving me 30 million for keeping his money in my post office account for a few days :slight_smile: Happy daysā€¦ just not sure what to spend all the money on?

I smell a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig Duxford BBQ, mate! :slight_smile:

Talking of whichā€¦Majik you still laying the BBQ on mate? Iā€™m staying at the same place especially. Coming up Friday night for a few beers with you and anybody else about. Watch the show Saturday and then the barbie on Saturday??

Bloody hope so mate :slight_smile: