Is this true ?"MICROSOFT YAHOO PROMOTIONS" <results@mic.org>?

Sweepstakes marking the middle of the year anniversary, The


Management rolled out over 250,000.000.00 (Two Hundred and Fity Million


Great Britain Pounds) Begining of the year lucky email selected draws.


Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide


range of web hosts which will be given the opportunity to benefit from


year


our patronage.





The selection was made through an electronic computer draw system


attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.Microsoft and


Yahoo are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make


sure


that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used programme,


Microsoft


and Yahoo are running an e-mail beta test.





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


007795827380 with serial numbers BTD/9583778341/07 and drew the lucky


numbers 10-44-52-17-62-88 which subsequently won you 2,500,000.00 (


Two Million Five hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the


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Is this true ?"MICROSOFT YAHOO PROMOTIONS" %26lt;results@mic.org%26gt;?
You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information.


www.scambusters.org


www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org


www.scambusters-419.co.uk


www.truthorfiction.com


.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
Is this true ?"MICROSOFT YAHOO PROMOTIONS" %26lt;results@mic.org%26gt;?
Yes I think. As felt by you, I too feel same.
Reply:First of all, this is a SCAM. Second, there is no such thing as a Gt British Pound. Here in England the Bank of England issues bank notes [bills] in the form of English Pounds.





Do not under any circumstances fall for the SCAM which you have described.





If Microsoft/Yahoo were running any sort of lottery, their adverters would be all over this site.





THERE IS NO SUCH LOTTERY - IT'S A SCAM.
Reply:Four words: spam, scam, fake, fraud. Please delete the message right away.
Reply:this is such a scam. i put a question up regarding the same thing and did not get an answer so i tried it. they asked me to mail them some money for insurence fees and courior services western union. i mailed 1600 dollars to them and have not recieved a check yet. i tried to track it and come to find out that anything sent western union is non traceable. i lost alot of money and i hope you don't do the same
Reply:This is 419 Nigerian Fraud. Many peple are falling victim to this sort of fraud. (see one of the other answers)





1: Yahoo and microsoft teaming up? I dont think so.


2: e-mail written in bad english?


3: You have won without entering any competition?


4: You are selected at random from al list? whose list?





Research 419 Nigerian fraud and see the other type of scams these people run.





Yahoo should do something to block these fraudsters but they don't despite the fact that thousands of their own customers fall victim to these frauds every day.