[Resolved]  Microsoft Lottery Incorporation — Genuinity of prize winning mail

sir/madam,

This is to bring to your notice that i have received an email from Microsoft lottery incorporation saying that i won 1M Great Britain Pounds. They are asking me to pat the delivery charges of Rs 25000/- before the parcel delivery having the cheque of prize money. So please inform me if this is a fake email or not so that i can make a right decision.
Thanking you
Was this information helpful?
No (0)
Yes (0)
Aug 14, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved 
Complaint comments 

Comments

Microsoft Lottery Incorporation — PARCEL ORDER NUMBER (MS/35468/OSL

DISPATCH OFFICER: Mr. John Walker
phone:[protected]
[protected]
Please Send Your Details TO ELITE COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY.
Full Name: Seema Thapa
Occupation: SR. Business Development Executive
Sex: Female
Country: India
state: Utter Pradesh
Age: 26
Marital Status:Single
Next Of Kin:Family (Mummy)
Residential Address: 123/11 Industrial Colony Naini Allahabad
Phone/Fax Number: [protected]

Microsoft — Microsft Lottery

(First)
FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,
Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the Draw (Batch #22) of MICROSOFT
CORPORATION
LOTTERY® held on the 16th SEPTEMBER,2009.Your E-mail Address attached to Ticket
Number :43566, was picked at random from our computer system. You have
won a
LUMP SUMS OF £250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) PAYABLE BY
TELEGRAPHIC WIRE TRANSFER (T/T), INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. YOU ARE A
WINNER OF
OUR ANNUAL MS-WORD LOTTERY CONDUCTED IN UNITED KINGDOM BEING THE HOST OF THE
EVENT FOR
THIS PRESENT YEAR LOTTERY WINNING PROGRAMS. Unauthorized reproduction
of this
program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal
penalties.

CONTACT CLAIM AGENT:
NAME: MR BILLSON MOORE
EMAIL: mr-billson.[protected]@live.com
TEL: +44-[protected]

Fill the below processing form and return it to MR BILLSON MOORE

FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:.............................
NATIONALITY:................................................

SEX:???????.. AGE...........................

MARITAL STATUS: .............................................

TEL NO: ............................FAX:....................

PASSPORT NUMBER: ............................................

STATE OF ORIGIN: ............................................

NEXT OF KIN: ...............................................

OCCUPATION: .................................................

For claims validation.
Yours Truly,
Mrs. Clara Gloria
Online co-ordinator
® (c) 2009 All Rights Reserved.

HON-BILLSON MOORE
Accredited Fiduciary Agent
Microsoft Awards promotion.
® 2009

(second)

PRIZE PROCESSING MANAGER
MR. BILLSON MOORE
UNITED KINGDOM
EMAIL mr-billson.[protected]@live.com
TEL :+44-[protected]
23/09/2009

ATTN:MR.SATYA PAL SINGH

Dear Prize Winner,
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your mail and to inform you that my duties include representing your interest and guiding you through claiming your winning cash prize. We want to clarify you here that after a good scrutiny of your provided data, we are glad to inform you that you are one of the winners Microsoft Awards promotion.
The Microsoft Awards promotion has been on for more than a decade now and we have changed the lives of many since then. Your life is about to be changed, as you are one of the lucky Winners of our annual Microsoft sponsored yearly bonus promotional draws Jackpot. Your winning cash prize of £250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling), will be paid to you soon as you meet with the requirements.
You should try and keep your winning confidential by ensuring that you do not discuss it with anybody until you have your cash prize with you so as to avoid impersonators from making claims to your cash prize as we have experienced severally in the past. You are hereby being warned and notified that
Microsoft Awards promotion will not accept responsibility to any of such mistake from you. Be informed that our verification department will use the requested personal information for official purposes. Once this is done, your Winning Certificate will be prepared and sent to you along with instructions on how to proceed.
Congratulations and have a wonderful week. Reply me to acknowledge the receipt of this e-mail immediately to able me to process your claim. Please feel free to call me on the phone number written below: Call within 7:30am-9:00pm GMT.
Good luck and Congratulations once again and have a wonderful week
Best Regard

MR. BILLSON MOORE
PRIZE PROCESSING MANAGER
Tel:++44-[protected]

(Third)
PRIZE PROCESSING MANAGER
MR. BILLSON MOORE
UNITED KINGDOM
EMAIL mr-billson.[protected]@live.com
TEL :+44-[protected]
DATE 24/09/2009


ATTN: MR.SATYA PAL SINGH

Dear Prize Winner,

I am pleased to inform you that you have been officially cleared for payment by the verifications Department at the headquarters of the MICROSOFT AWARDS PROMOTION CENTER United Kingdom for the ballot computer internet draws of THE MICROSOFT AWARDS PROMOTION O[censored]NITED KINGDOM AS SPONSORED BY THE MICROSOFT COMPANY INC. The original copy of your Winning Certificate, your Winning bank draft/check and two other documents
Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the British Government stating that the money was obtained legally through the MICROSOFT AWARDS PROMOTION LOTTERY will be sent to you via courier as soon as you meet with any of the optional requirements listed below. Meanwhile, your winning certificate will be sent to you first via email attachment
I wish to inform you that all authorities involved have certified payment of your Lottery Claims amounting to £250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling), which is prize money from MICROSOFT AWARDS PROMOTION for your winning in the Microsoft Award Draws, which was drawn through a computer random system of all Internet
users worldwide. Be informed that instruments of payment for the sum of £250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) to you is already in our possession and shall be processed upon meeting the requirements stated below. You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are two options open to you; you are required to select the more
convenient of the two.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1: Courier of your winning draft to you via DHL Courier Company, which is our assigned courier company. Please note that
you can cash your bank draft from any bank anywhere in the world. The Courier Company would bring the documents to your postal/home address nominated by you and as written below (please you are allowed to correct or amend your contact information in your next mail):
You will be required to send your international passport, driver’s license or ID card to me via email attachment as it will be used for a proper identification of you during delivery of your winning documents and bank draft to you by the DHL Courier Company.

Option 2: Your prize money will be wired to your bank account via an automated Direct Wire Transfer System operated by nominated Payment center. Hence you would be required to send in your Bank information, i.e.. bank account number, swift/iban codes.
I expect an email from you immediately making a selection from the two options above. Also call me and inform me so as to hasten up your transfer. Call within 7:30am-9:00pm GMT.Congratulations and have a wonderful week.
Best Regard

MR. BILLSON MOORE
PRIZE PROCESSING MANAGER
Tel:+44-[protected]

(Fourth)
ATTN:MR. SATYA PAL SINGH,

Prize Winner
Find the attachment of your winning certificate
This is to bring to your kind notice that we the entire management of Microsoft Awards promotion. board has finalized with the board directors of the respected organization towards your parcel delivery in your nominated address in your country.

In this regards, our respected processing manager will be departing from United Kingdom today been 28 OF SEPTEMBER 2009 here in a respect of your wining price delivery in your nominated address without delay or hindrances.
More over, according to the telephone conversation my personnel assistance had with the chief custom authority in your country, he indicated that you will have to pay the sum of 390 pounds as your parcel clearance as soon as our respected processing manager arrived in your country.

You make sure you hasten up with what so ever you are doing to avoid misfortunes in the delivery of your parcel and kindly have it in mind that there are other beneficiaries waiting for our respected processing manager arrival in other country like Malaysia and Japan.
Note. The name of the processing manger is DP. victor scott.EMAIL mr.[protected]@yahoo.co.uk

For more information and analysis regarding your parcel do not hesitate to get us informed for guild lines and instructions,
Congratulations and have a wonderful week. Reply me to acknowledge the receipt of this e-mail immediately to able me to process your claim. Please feel free to call me on the phone number written below: Call within 7:30am-9:00pm GMT.
Good luck and Congratulations once again and have a wonderful week
Best Regard

MR.BILLSON MOORE
PRIZE PROCESSING MANAGER
Tel:+44-[protected]

This also includes a certificate attached below....


I was shocked when I observed contents of the complainant lodged by R. Pushpalata on your site.
Wherein I found that she was also issued the same certificate bearing the same information as mentioned in the certificate issued to me.However I have not yet payed any amount to this fake entity, but I mailed a scanned copies of my D/L, and PAn Card.

Due to which I am of the extreme fear of misusing my documents.

In the light of the above facts, I request your authorities to please take a serious cognigence and inquire into the matter as to how the above fake entity is befooling the innocent people on your behalf so as to safeguard the undue risk of innocent people being trapped by the above fake person.

do reply as early as possible.
I agree with the mail bcoz i also got the same mail from the same person. .including all detail ..i have also send my id card n now what to do about this ?is this fraud or not tell me i m worried for my documents. .please take some action. . .
Hi, Sir/Madam
I recieved an email from microsoft stating that i have won 1.5million pound sterling among lucky 12 members and to claim this i do have do send the relevant details regarding name address and lottery number and reference number with pin numbers which i forwarded to james smith head of micrsoft lottery promotion hence they send me the barclays bank claim form which i filled and send to concerned barclays bank account officer Mr william f morgan and had words with him over his direct landline also [protected].and his official in india in mumbai named saurabh agarwal having contact number[protected].who said to deposit cost of charge fees(cot fees) 430 pound sterling against the winning amount claim so i deposited indian rupees today in axis bank in Mr Vikash Sharma's account number of east bengal having pan number CCBPS0502A.IN TOPSIA BRANCH.they told me to deposit the payment and scan the deposit slip and send it to the custcare email id of barclay bank of Mr William Morgan.they replied through cell number and by mail also confirmed receiving of the deposit slip and committed that the winning amount would be deposited in my account today within 6 hours then after i checked my account and i didnt get the winning amount then when i tried Mr Saurabhs cell he switched off after the cell was in ringing mode for long and didn't picked the cell and then switched it off on permanent basis or put it on voicemail.thenafter i tried Mr William Morgan cell number after long he picked and told that he would be available on email but neither thing happened hence i am afraid now i want my cot charges INDIAN RUPEES 32500 back and winning amount and want that these cheater's should be caught so that no layman can be caught in these fraud emails.please help me and tell me what i can do against them as i already have all their emails and my emails saved.
Thanking You
Your's Sincerely
Shahnawaz Siddiqui
[protected]@sify.com
I HAVE RECIEVED SIMILAR EMAIL IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE CULPRITE YOU CAN MAKE USE OF THIS MAIL


MICROSOFT® (UK. Regional Office) Products Promotion Division, Microsoft Building, Wright Lane, Kensington London W85sp.************************* Dear lucky winner, This is to inform you that your email has won a consolation prize of the Microsoft Corporation EMAIL DRAW Today. Your email has won you Ј1, 000.000.00 (One Million Great British Pounds) The Five participants for this year 2009 draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. As one of the jackpot winners in his draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of Ј1, 000.000.00. please contact your fiduciary agent Barr.Arthur James Esq with your Batch #:409978E and Reference No:FL/[protected] and contact him via email immediately within 24hrs.with the information below. Barr. Arthur James Esq. Microsoft Promotion Award TeamHead Winning Claims Dept.Tel: +[protected]Tel: +[protected]Tel: +[protected]Fax: +[protected]Email: [protected]@sys-w.com===========================================================... OF PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter)==============================================================1. Full Name:2. Address:3. Marital Status:4. Occupation:5. Age:6. Sex:7. Nationality:8. Tel: NB: The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies. The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide. Congratulation once again on behalf of all our staff. Sincerely, Mrs. Quita YenHead Customer care ServiceMicrosoft. Claims Office

The Microsoft Lottery Incorporation — Mail about Lottery winning

I have received a mail regarding £500.000 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) from below Address.Please verify and revert back to me.




----- Forwarded Message ----
From: CLAIMS DEPARTMENT <[protected]@hotmail.co.uk>
To: [protected]@yahoo.com
Sent: Tue, September 14, 2010 12:35:47 PM
Subject: Contact Our Affiliated BanK For Immediate Payment‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏

Microsoft

The Microsft Lottery Incorporation

Baley House, Har Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te,United Kingdom.

====================================

Dear Lucky Winner.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the winners selected on the YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY. The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows.

Your email address was the one that won you this prize amount without you applying for it. Your email address was among the 100 thousand emails selected from the internet on our ballot lottery promotions. Your email fall among the 10 lucky winners selected by the lottery machine system.


Your prize Amount 500,000 Thousand Pounds in Cheque has been forwarded to our Bank for the immediate transfer of your prize to your account. You are hereby advised to make direct contact with the below (BARCLAYS BANK UK ), for electronically transfer of your winning funds. The bank contact is issued below:
Kindly note that your winning amount is in a suspense account with the stipulated bank and immediate contact is needed from your side to the bank for transfer of your lottery amount as soon as possible.
1) Your Full Name(s):
2) Your Bank Name:
3) Name on Account:
4) Account Number:
5) Bank Address:

6: Your Complete Address:

7: Your Cell Number:

8: Your Office Number:

9: Your Home Number:

10: Your Won Amount:

11: Country and Nationality

PLEASE: YOU ARE TO FORWARD YOUR BANK DETAILS TO THE BANK


Tel: +[protected]
Finally we advise you to keep us updated as soon as the paying bank has transferred the funds into your account in order for us (The Lottery) company to list your name on the winning list.


Note: Microsoft International Lottery has discovered a huge number of double claiming due to recipients informing close friends relatives and third parties about their cash prize and also sharing their winning notification. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the winning prize on behalf of the real recipient. You can as well come over to London for the claim of your prize if necessary



Sincerely yours,
Mr. Thomos Brown

(Claims Process Officer)

© "Copyright 2009 Microsoft Award All Right Reserve

Post your Comment

    I want to submit Complaint Positive Review Neutral Comment
    code
    By clicking Submit you agree to our Terms of Use
    Submit
    Microsoft
    customer care contact
    Customer satisfaction rating Customer satisfaction rating is a complex algorithm that helps our users determine how good a company is at responding and resolving complaints by granting from 1 to 5 stars for each complaint and then ultimately combining them all for an overall score.
    Read more
    41%
    Complaints
    888
    Pending
    0
    Resolved
    365
    Microsoft Phone
    +91 12 4415 8000
    Microsoft Address
    10th Floor, Tower B & C, DLF Building No.5 (Epitome), Cyber City, DLF Phase III, Gurgaon, Haryana, India - 122002
    View all Microsoft contact information