I received an email that i hav won lottery from msword is it true?

[Mubashar Nawaz]

I received the email from
From:"msw Lottery" <[email protected]>
FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,
Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON LOTTERY PRIZE FUND(£5,500,000.00)
To: (e-mail address removed)
CONTACT THE CLAIMS OFFICER WITH THE E-MAIL
BELOW: to get your winnings
PROF. DENNIS KEITA.
(PAYING AGENT)
E-MAIL :[email protected]
TELL: +234-8060845002
+234-8058476756. Nijeria
Fax: 234-8033355514
WINNER NO: 5
Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Caro Smith
(Co-ordinator). ( Secretary )
is it true if it is true then what can i do?
please answer me as soon as possible.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Ask yourself, why would Microsoft use a Yahoo! mail address????????

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mubashar Nawaz asked:

| I received the email from
| From:"msw Lottery" <[email protected]>
| FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL
| PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY
| UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,
| Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.
| Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON LOTTERY PRIZE
| FUND(£5,500,000.00)
| To: (e-mail address removed)
| CONTACT THE CLAIMS OFFICER WITH THE E-MAIL
| BELOW: to get your winnings
| PROF. DENNIS KEITA.
| (PAYING AGENT)
| E-MAIL :[email protected]
| TELL: +234-8060845002
| +234-8058476756. Nijeria
| Fax: 234-8033355514
| WINNER NO: 5
| Mrs. Basheera Abubakar Mrs. Caro Smith
| (Co-ordinator). ( Secretary )
| is it true if it is true then what can i do?
| please answer me as soon as possible.

 

[Tony Jollans]

Just which bit of this e-mail do you really think might be true?

The Yahoo e-mail address (as already pointed out)?
The Nigerian 'phone number perhaps?

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

is it true if it is true then what can i do?
please answer me as soon as possible.

It's a fraud, it appears to be a "pishing" scheme. If you answer,
you'll be asked to enter a great deal of personal information including
bank account information, credit card numbers, PayPal information (if
you have an account), SS number, etc. etc.etc. and then they'll have
the necessary information for identity theft with you being the victim.

Delete it w/o answering.