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  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Maybe I"m cynical but I'm pretty sure Microsoft isn't going to give you $5 let alone $1 million GBP.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    onelongsong wrote:
    normally i just delete any email that says i won something. but today i got an email from microsoft saying i won $1 million GBP. i didn't delete it for several reasons. first; it's from microsoft; second; all they ask for is an address to send a check to. most scams want personal information.

    so my question to the train is:
    has anyone else had experience with these types of contests and what was the outcome. do you think they are all scams?

    If I had a dollar for every time someone came to me on the job and asked me about the Microsoft emails of this nature I''d probably have a million by now...

    It belongs in your deleted items....think no more about it.... 100% hoax...

    http://www.google.ca/search?q=microsoft+email+hoax&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    If you right click on the email and go to options...you'll see a bunch of stuff in the "internet headers". Copy and paste that here and I'll tell you exactly where it came from or if it's anywhere near legit...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    just remember this, my friend. if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true. don't fall for those weasels.
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    All of my spam is about penis enlargement and single women.

    Something is wrong with google ads profiling... I swear it!
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Ahnimus wrote:
    All of my spam is about penis enlargement and single women.

    Something is wrong with google ads profiling... I swear it!

    If you send me your SS # and bank account # there is a long lost relative of your's that has extra money left over from his penis enlargement fundraiser he'd like to give to you and he has 5 hot sisters that want to party with you on their live webcams.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    "The Contest" episode of Seinfeld in on TBS. Freaking hilarious!
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Sorry dude, it's not from MIcrosoft. We get e-mails all teh time from our ISP (supposedly) saying we just have to update our account info. they look real, they aren't.
    WE also get fake paypal ones for teh smae thing,.........your account has been suspended, please re-activeate blah blah blah.........they loook real, guess what ???????????????????????

    Simple issue here is that we believe what we want to believe, it's almost like religion. Hah, see no thread on teh Train is devoid of religion .......




















    evil laugh.......................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Music is not a competetion.
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org

    this is the government place to report these things.

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