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Microsoft® Corporation
Consumer Services Centre .
Roger Needham Building
7 JJ Thomson Ave
Cambridge CB3 0FB
United Kingdom.

Dear Beneficiary,

We are pleased to notify you that your Email address has been picked online in this second quarter's MICROSOFT CONSUMER AWARD (MCA) as a Winner of One Hundred and Fifty Five Thousand Pounds Sterling "£155,000.00" in the International Winners Category.

For further details and claims procedure, you are to establish contact with your claims agent via e-mail with the particulars presented below:

Mr. Tony Adams
Emails: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***
Tel: +447045795051

Do provide the details below in contacting Mr. Adams
1. Full Names
2. Address
3. Age
4. ____
5. Nationality
6. Occupation
7. Telephone Number(s)

Congratulations.

Sincerely
Management
Microsoft Consumer Awards.

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Thigpen and Christer Karlsen,

See my colleague MVP MowGreen's reply.

"Microsoft customers are often targets of lottery fraud (also known as lottery scams), which use fake e-mail messages that claim that the recipient has won "The Microsoft Lottery."
There is no Microsoft lottery and if you receive this kind of e-mail it has been sent by criminals in an attempt to steal money from you."

Please read:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/lottery/whatis.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/lottery.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/security/lottery/default.mspx

To report Internet crime, contact IC3 or your local FBI field office (http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm).

In addition you can send an e-mail to Windows Live Customer Support (Abuse Team) at *** Email address is removed for privacy ***.
Vincenzo Di Russo - Microsoft MVP Windows Internet Explorer, Windows Desktop Experience & Security - Since 2003. ~~~ My MVP Profile: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Vincenzo
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Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP Windows Insider 2016 ~ 2020.
Internet Explorer, Windows & Security Expert ~ since 2003
Moderator in the Microsoft Community and TechNet Forums

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