Monday, August 8, 2011

Lucky Internet User...

Blue's comments are always in purple italics...

Subject: Congratulations Your winning Reference is: Ref:MSN1/10yI/05 Won £500,000.00
From:
Microsoft Award Team - info@award.com (So it's from Microsoft, but without a Microsoft email address?)Reply-to: perryjohn1@xnmsn.com

You have won £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling ) MICROSOFT Internet User Promo held on the 1ST of April,2011 in Manchester.United Kingdom.Your winning Reference # is:Ref:MSN1/10yI/05. Your Email address was picked as the Lucky Internet User for the promo among (6)other Internet User Worldwide. To redeem your Cash Prize/Transfer process,Kindly Call the Phone Number (+44-701-114-8219) (Typical of Nigerian scammers to use fake numbers with the 44 country code) of the Promo Manager (Dr. Perry John) and contact him via e-mail below:

Dr.Perry John
TEL:+44-701-114-8219
Email;perryjohn1@xnmsn.com

You are therefore advice (I am therefore advice, huh? Sure...)to complete the below information to him for verification:1.Full Name:2.Full Address: 3.Status:4.Occupation:5.Age
6.Sex:7.Country:8.Mobile Number.9.Winning Ref:MSN1/10yI/05
Congratulations,
Mrs.Tracy Barbara

One final thought on this one. Take a close look at the names. Scammers often make up names using two first names, hoping that the names pass for English ones. Guess what...they don't. Perry John? Tracy Barbara? Really? These idiots make this almost too easy to spot. More to come soon!

If this post helped you or prevented a scammer from gaining another victim, let me know!  I'd love to hear your comments.

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