The generous Mr Bill Gates

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  1. #1
    Cop this email I just received!!

    CONGRATULATION! YOU HAVE WON £750,000.00 WITH MICROSOFT PROMOTIONS 2007





    Microsoft Award Promotion

    Manchester

    United Kingdom

    Ref: BTD/968/05

    Batch: 409978E

    Dear Winner,

    CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!!

    The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the year 2007 anniversary, we rolled out over £4,419,864 for our end of year Anniversary Draws. 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. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. 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 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 £750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 5 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of £750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds) the draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 3rd of September 2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

    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. To file for your claim Please Contact your delivery agency in the contact information below:

    DELIVERY AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION:

    NAME OF CLAIM AGENCY FIRM: CUSTUDY CLIENT SERVICES UK
    OFFICE ADDRESS: Custody House
    14 Lloyd Street, Manchester
    M2 5ND United Kingdom
    Fax: +44 1 848 720 3913
    Email:
    Contact Person: Dr. Green Smith

    You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:

    1) Full name:
    2) Address:
    3) Ticket Numbers:
    4) Batch Number:
    5) Serial Number:
    6) Lucky Numbers: (as indicated in this winning Notification)
    7) Phone numbers:
    8) Amount won:
    9) Sex
    10) Age
    11) Occupation

    Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.

    Note: You have one week from the date of this publication to claim your prize or you may forfeit your winnings. In compliance with the sponsoring bodies’, you are to make a remittance of a part of your won fund, not lower than 10-percent, after receiving your allocation to a charity organization of your choice in your country.

    Thank you for being part of our commemorative end of year Anniversary Draws.

    Mrs. Bryan McDonald
    Microsoft Promotion Team
    Vice President

    How to open Microsoft Award Team Document?
    In order to open your Award Document you will need Adobe Reader version 5 or 6 installed on your computer.

    If you don't have Adobe Reader version 5 or 6 installed on your computer, please click here to download the software or copy and paste the following URL in the "address" line in your web browser:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

    If you have an older version of Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you will see the following error message when you try to open the attachment:

    There was an error opening this document. This viewer cannot decrypt this document.

    Please upgrade your current version of Adobe Reader to version 6 by downloading the newer version from the Adobe website stated above.
    Once you have installed Adobe Reader version 5 or 6, double-click on the attachment in order to view Award Document.
    If you require any Technical assistance with the process, please contact Custody Client Services United Kingdom: - Email:



    Kind regards,

    Mrs. Bryan McDonald
    Vice President
    Microsoft Promotion Team
    United Kingdom
     
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  2. Kerosene

    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    #2
    "Mrs. Bryan McDonald"?

    Damn, she sounds hot.
     
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  3. linkmistress

    linkmistress Peon

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    Hmmmm.......Sound a bit suss?
     
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  4. Brennan

    Brennan Notable Member

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    and why would you think that?

    BTW col if theres any problems with it and your required to send money to a Nigerian back account its all part of the process don't worry about it.
     
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  5. stock_post

    stock_post Prominent Member

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    is this only for verifcation that you are real and capable of receving money from our scam correct!
     
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  6. RoyalSeo

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    God!- The spammer really used his brain [​IMG]

    Seriously, Many can fall for this.
     
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  7. KingofKings

    KingofKings Banned

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    #7
    Damn you think Mr. Gates will ever send that email signed by him. :)
     
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  8. ammoun

    ammoun Active Member

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    Maybe he is making new plans since he had lost his place as a richest man !
     
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  9. Spider Man

    Spider Man Guest

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    lol ... CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! thats the word banned in my mail box:p .. any one send me mail using that word goes to my Junk Folder .. =]
     
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  10. shanX

    shanX Peon

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    #11
    It seems you get all the emails with the biggest rewards.
     
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  12. ammoun

    ammoun Active Member

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    #12
    Not a good idea :D

    Sure someone will want to congratulate you one day for serious :)
     
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  13. Cash4master

    Cash4master Banned

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    #13
    It sounds a spam in the name of Microsoft!:rolleyes:
     
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  14. mrpointdigital

    mrpointdigital Active Member

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    #14
    Its SPAM.....

    I get the same emails too..
     
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  15. anodyne

    anodyne Peon

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    #15
    The ironic thing here is that Bill Gates is actually a fairly generous guy, what with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and all.
     
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    Cheap SEO Services <------DoFollow Backlinks

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    #16
    I am going to contact Mrs Bryan McDonald and ask if she will accept a shipping container full of goats as downpayment for releasing the funds. I have plenty of goats but not much $$$ :D

    Col :)
     
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  17. ChrisMono

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    hmm why have scammers started using manchester as their base of operations?
     
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  18. Barginator

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    Lol I like this email....beats the we have a gazzillion dollars locked up in Nigeria and need your bank info to get it out.
     
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  19. Jag100

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    OMG Iv just got that yesterday aswell :p. But for some reason it went to my hotmail junk folder :p Scams and chain mail should die
     
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    If it were real, MS would be out of pocket in a very short time. Imagine them sending out 750k 100 million times??? :D

    Col :)
     
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