Received an e-mail claiming to come from Yahoo/Microsoft

Yahoo/Microsoft Office Online NATIONAL LOTERIJ code POSTAL REGISTERED under THE law on DATA PROTECTION OF;(Registration U971133B). Dear owner of Email, we are pleased to announce that this email has won in the category this month of the Yahoo/Microsoft-National postal code Lottery draws. This makes you that one lucky winner of a Euro.This Million Lottery is organized for the benefit of all users of internet e-mail everywhere in the world. This lottery is organized by Yahoo/Microsoft Office Online in collaboration with the national postal code lottery. Online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses on an exclusive list of 29,031,643 e-mail addresses of individuals and legal persons picked by an automated random computer search on the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to the numbers different tickets for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized e-mail selection machine (TOPAZ). This lottery is approved by the British game and also authorized by the International Association of game regulators (IAGR). This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. You are to reply to this message and send the below for requests for information. 1. name: 2. address: 3 Occupation: 4. age: 5 *: 6 nationality: 7. country of residence: 8 phone number: NOTE: all RESPONSES MUST BE SENT to: * e-mail address is removed from the privacy * this mail is saved and sent to a Yahoo/Microsoft-National certified postal code promo winner. You are to keep this award strictly from public notice until your application has been processed and your money back to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid friends or relatives trying to claim a prize on behalf of the winner, that is. Our thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and associates. Accept once more our congratulations. PAMELA ANN BANDARA (MS.) DIRECTOR; CLAIMS SERVICE. Copyright © 2011 Yahoo/Microsoft-NATIONALE LOTERIJ of POSTAL code.

This email is a scam. It came not from Microsoft. If you reply with personal information, you may become a victim of identity theft.

'Learn to recognize the 5 types of e-mail scamscommon'.

See:
- Avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently.
- Of the Microsoft Lottery scam?
- Assistance with phishing, lottery and other types of scams fraud

Cordially.

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