Can you verify the below noted email I received- sounds like 'hooie' to me?

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully


organised a Sweepstakes for our email owners for the month of


april/may 2007.


100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) is been roll


out to all our email account owners. 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.Microsoft and AOL are


now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that


Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and


AOL are running an e-mail beta test.


Your email was luckily drawn by a computer balloting system as one of


our winners in our experimental lottery bonanza from the prestigous


MICROSOFT AND AOL ONLINE PROMOTION. Thus, making you the winner


Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number


008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky


numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 500,000.00GBP


(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the jackpot


winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of


500,000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).


We appreciate your patronage. This draw was held on the 26-05-2007


and the result was sent to my office today.





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.


Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.


**************************************...





DR JOHN MATHINS


Microsoft Promotion Award Team


Head Winning Claims Dept.


TELL:+44 70457 12370


E-mail:johnmathins_0227@yahoo.co.uk





**************************************...
Can you verify the below noted email I received- sounds like 'hooie' to me?
It sure looks like "hooie" to me.





The selling and sentence structure are both British, but both AOL and Microsoft are American companies.





Look at the e-mail address: It's a Yahoo! address! If there are two companies in the world that don't need a Yahoo! e-mail address, those two are AOL and Microsoft.





As another poster noted, the country code for the telephone number should be 1 rather than 44.





The last paragraph asks you to "make contact with [YOUR] designated agent, but, whoever he is, he is THEIR agent, not MINE.





The e-mail says to "contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION." It then lists Dr. John Mathins as the "Microsoft Promotion Award Team...." I would assume he is the Fiduciary Agent, but he is not identified as such.





Messages like this one are written by attorneys. They make everything crystal clear. This is a sham.





You might have some fun with this one, but be careful.





Scott
Can you verify the below noted email I received- sounds like 'hooie' to me?
If you have ever personally dealt with AOL or Microsoft, you'll KNOW that they don't EVER, EVER give away money for anything. ANY e-mails you receive that say that you're in a sweepstakes or a raffle at random are rubbish.
Reply:Sounds like houie to me. The giveaway is the +44 country code. The US is 1. If it was legate, it should be a 1 country code and a Microsoft email address. I would stay away.
Reply:doesn't sound real to me.





look it up on snopes.
Reply:AOL and Microsoft with a Yahoo contact email?





That has to be the best "Come hither," of the 21 Century, . . . said the spider to the fly!