Friday, February 13, 2009

How lucky can I be?

Apparently I've won two separate lotteries in two days, although I entered neither. Not that I could have entered even if I'd wanted to, they're as fake as they come.

From: info@microsoft.com
Subject: Good news
Date: January 15, 2009 10:03:02 AM CST
Reply-To: promoclaimsunit@yahoo.com.hk

The MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMO TEAM is glad to announce that after a
successful completion of the PROMO DRAWS OF JANUARY 2009,
your e-mail address,attached to winning numbers:
(15) (53) (44) (21) (30) (19) won in the Tenth lottery category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
Ј500.000.00(Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds
Sterling) in cash credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/008-28793,BATCH
NO:2008MJL-05, this is from a total prize money of ?3,750,000
(Three Million,Seven hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds
Sterling),shared among the Twenty five (25) international
winners in this category.

You are adviced to contact the claims processor with
the details below via his e-mail address :

Name: Graham Cunningham
E-mail: promoclaimsunit@yahoo.com.hk

1.Full Name:
2.Address:
3.Phone:
4.Fax:
5.Country:
6.Sex/Gender:
7.Age:

Your secret pin code is NY7530085ML.Be warned that cases of double claims and
unwarranted abuse of this program will be legally pursued.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,
MRS. LINDA GIBSON.

Hmm.  Well, at least whoever wrote this wasn't quite as unfamiliar with the English language as the asshat(s) from yesterday.  Although whoever is behind this does seem to have issues with punctuation marks and punctuation.  

And then there's the small matter of the symbol representing British Pounds Sterling.  And it seems that computers in Hong Kong have no £ symbol.

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