Unsolicited email from sender "microsoft.com"
SteveB
not seem legitimate and I wonder how it could be sent masked as
microsoft.com. see below:
DRAW NOTIFICATION...........YOUR EMAIL ID EMERGED YOU WINNER
MICROSOFT CORPORATIONS SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS.
CUSTOMER SERVICES
Your Batch No: 2009/281/CB
Your Reference No: ALE/MCS/4097
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the release of the long awaited results of
Sweepstakes promotion organized by Microsoft Corporations, in conjunction
with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held
this August 2009, in the United Kingdom. Where in your email address emerged
as one of the online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore
attracted a cash award of 250,000.00 euro (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Euros Only) and a Toshiba laptop. To begin your claim, do file for the
release of your winning by contacting our Foreign Transfer Manager:
Mr. Flip Hubert
Tel: 0031-684-088-467
Fax: 0031 847-300-758
Email: infocla...@mail2consultant.com
The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by former
CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies.
The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies.
The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to
encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide.
Congratulations!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Serena Henrik
Promotions Manager.
Please let me know your thoughts on this security issue.
Steve
Dwarf
Hi Steve,
DO NOT respond to this email in any way. This is a SCAM. Have a look
here 'Microsoft Corporation Complaints - scam emails'
(http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/microsoft-corporation-c101979.html)
Notice how the main body is word-for-word, and how the surname Henrik
appears again.
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If it was from Microsoft then why is the return address mail2consultant.com
and not Microsoft.com?
I really hope you did not reply to this.
Colin Brown
WL MVP
"SteveB" <Ste...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AD11BFAB-D345-403B...@microsoft.com...
N. Miller
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 06:20:04 -0700, SteveB wrote:
> I received a message purporting to be from microsoft.com The message does
> not seem legitimate and I wonder how it could be sent masked as
> microsoft.com.
I can send email as "From:" anybody that I choose. Just as I can send postal
mail from any return address that I choose. There is no method of preventing
me from sending as either, 'micoroft.com', or from '1600 Pennsylvania, AV,
Washington, D.C.'.
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