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Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Wrights Lane,
Kensington London W85SP,
England UNITED KINGDOM
FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU


OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but
please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your
success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail
electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in conjunction
with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.)
held this January 2008,in London UK.

Where in your email address emerged as one of the online Winning
emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of
£350.000.00 (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds sterling) Our winners are
arranged into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly
in each category. They are arranged in this format below:

These are your identification numbers:MCS-26799/097

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 2 £ 500,000.00 pounds each
2nd. 8 £ 350.000.00 pounds each
3rd. 13 £ 250,000.00 pounds each
4th. 27 £ 170,000.00 pounds each

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to
contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message
for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual
payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released with
the following particulars attached to it.

(1) Award numbers: NL 56/7766
(2) Email ticket numbers: EAASL-130877
(3) Batch numbers: MC11/834/8PDH /EU
(4) The file reference numbers: HL/5574/41/07/MICS
{5} Serial Numbers: McST/006/NL46560

For verification purpose be sure to include:
(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
{4} Your Full Names.
(5) Occupation.
(6) Your Preffered Method Of Receiving Your Price(From Below)

Mode Of Price Remittance.

(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to Uk Personally to Pick Your Price).

(2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other
Winning Documents safely to you.

To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for
VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this winning
notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine
working days of winning notification are termed void and invalid. You are
required to mention the above particulars of your
award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your
winning.

CONTACT:
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FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
MR KELVIN CLERK.
MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
FAX: +44 701 113 4155
E-mail:enquiry@micro-xp-award.com
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The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our
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.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Sincerely,
MR. RICKY WILLIAMS.
M.S.PRO.ZONAL COORDINATOR

*****

The Camelot Group,
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great
Britain held on the of 8TH MARCH. 2008. Your mail account have been
picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one
thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds (£891,934.00
pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF
NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742008.

This is from total prize money of GBP £4,459,670.00shared among the
FIVE (5) international winners in this category.All participants for the
online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through
computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database, union
associations and corporate bodies that are listed online.This promotion is
this year's United Kingdom National Lottery Weekly bonus.

The Camelot Group, operators of the United Kingdom National Lottery is
approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The
International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).All winning must be
claimed not later than 9 working days from this notification. After this
time all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as
unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference number in all
correspondence.Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until
your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.To begin your claim, please contact your
Claims Agent:

Prof. Derek Max.
PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
26 Stanhope Road
Kent CT14 6AD London
United Kingdom
Email:cglgroupukdept@hotmail.co.uk
Tel: +447045718420
Tel: +447045747857

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money.Note below your winning details:Ticket No:
22-1356-4096-988, Serial no: A069-07,Lucky No:
12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17,File REF No.: UKL/74-A0802742008,BATCH No.:
2008UKL-01

***IMPORTANT*** FILL OUT THIS WINNERS

KINDLY FILL THE VERIFICATION FORM
FULLNAMES:__________
Sex:________________
ADDRESS:____________
City________________
State_______________
Postcode____________
Country_____________
Tel_________________
Nationality_________
occupation__________
choose your claims option. (1)Courier(2)Bank Transfer
Congratulations again from all our staff.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

*****

We should ask ourselves whether it is possible to win anything without doing anything in the first place.
Also, email is not the preferred form of notification.