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Interesting spam...

03 06 07 - 19:14 [blockquote>Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10,
United Kingdom.
Ref: BTD/968/06
Batch: 409978E

Dear Lucky winner,

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully
organised a Sweepstakes marking the beginning of year anniversary we
rolled out over 100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain
Pounds) for our beginning of the year Anniversary Draws. Participants
for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web
hosts which we enjoy their patronage.[/blockquote>

Microsoft / AOL are prestigious? What?

Beginning of the year anniversary? But it's June (oh wait, this IS a Microsoft system, I suppose that's how long it took for Vista to boot)...

[blockquote>
The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching
personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.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.
[/blockquote>

Scary, Microsoft and AOL combining. I can't see it happening, you can't have THAT much lameness in one place!

The bit about somehow ensuring IE remains the most widely used I don't believe, but how would spamming people help? The only thing IE has to do with email is that it can be used to browse webmail sites...

[blockquote>
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
1,000, 000.00 (One Million Great Britain Pounds) as one of the jackpot
winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of
1,000,000.00 (One Million Nine Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).
The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United
Kingdom on May 20th, 2007.
[/blockquote>

Since WHEN is 1,000,000.00 equal to one million nine hundred thousand? Did you use some new Microsoft/AOL technology to calculate that?

[blockquote>
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 fiduciary agent

Mr. ken Gate
Microsoft Promotion Award Team, Head Winning Claims Dept.
Email: fiduciarymicrosoftclaimsagent@gmail.com
[/blockquote>

A Gmail address? Nice. But beware the wrath of Gates :)

Oh, and have fun with your spam filled inbox.

[blockquote>
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We
wish you the best of luck.Thank you for being part of our promotional
award program and commemorative Anniversary Draws.
[/blockquote>

Best of luck in laughing at your spam? Yeah. Thanks.

[blockquote>
Sincerely,
Dr.Olivia Holland
Head Customercare Service, Microsoft Promotion Team.[/blockquote>

Did someone read this spam before sending it? Now get out of my inbox.