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WON Microsoft promotion award 2018 lotery?

I received a mail from: *** Email address is removed for privacy *** Saying i has won microsoft promotion award 2018 lotery, this mail is real or fake. Thanks! 

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It's fake. Sorry. :) We're all just losers. lol.
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Diane Poremsky
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Fake news

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I received the same email but it seemed too fake to be true. The weird part was the email was from the University of South Carolina (email.sc.edu) and they had CC'd Univeristy of South Carolina student. Full email below for others (exactly as received):

MICROSOFT PROMOTION AWARD 2018

CONGRATULATIONS,

Your email address has won $1,500,000 USD on behalf of Microsoft Award, kindly Replay with your Full Names, Phone Number And Address for Claims.

Microsoft Award

Head of Operations

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Just received that exact email just a few mins ago

Must be some collage student sending them threw his Student email

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Is this a scam?

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Do you really have to ask? What do you think?

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Date 9th August 2018


DEAR WINNER: 
 
Welcome to the MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION (MIAP) We have received your email regarding your claims requirement, and it was acknowledged. This continental draw was drawn from three continents, AMERICA, EUROPE and ASIA, and you are one of the lucky winner of the 2018 Award Promotion by MICROSOFT CORPORATION LUMIA TELECOMS COMPANY from India.
 
As the claims officer of the Microsoft International Awareness Promotion, I personally congratulate you as the winner from Asia, In line with the commemoration events marking our annual anniversary of the MICROSOFT MOBILE AWARD PROMOTION 2018, we rolled out over 18,000.000.00 (Eighteen Million Numbers) All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 company mobile numbers, and 300,000,000 individual mobile numbers from the 25 mobile networks as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually in Britain, London.
 
This email is to inform you that your demand draft together with all documents that will facilitate the delivery and transfer of your prize has been approved and parceled for delivery to you in your country India. Please bear with us our affiliated flight, Lufthansa  Airline has no available flight from London (UK) to your own city, so the flight that is bringing our delivery officer will arrive at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi State, From New Delhi our delivery officer will take a domestic flight to your city so that both of you can go to your bank for the conversion and transfer formalities.
 
You will be require to pay Twenty Five Thousand Rupees Only (25,000 INR) for the government tax clearance duty and registration charges of your parcel on arrival at the airport, because your parcel is an International parcel coming from United Kingdom. Your parcel must be register in your country upon the arrival of our diplomat and you are to follow the instructions of our delivery officer to enable him deliver your parcel to you and also to make sure your demand draft is transfer into your nominated bank account when he meets with you in your city.
 
As soon as our delivery officer arrives in India, He will contact with you on how to meet and deliver to you, We advise you to follow his instructions accordingly so that your parcel can be delivered.
 

YOUR WINNING PARCEL CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:

this mail is real or rong pls datelr in hindi

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Dear sir/Madam,

can you tell me about who is winner the prize of Microsoft Anniversary promotion draw 2018 From PAKISTAN.

Regards,

Muhammad Azam

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ME ENVIARON ESTE CORREO.

su correo electrónico ha ganado $ 750,000,00 en nombre de microsoft award enviar nombre y país para reclamar la respuesta a este correo electrónico  *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

ES VERDAD ???

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