Does anyone know where I forward this to "the real Microsoft?"?

I'm so sick of getting these emails. I KNOW it is a scam and when I delete one, they kept sending others emails that read like this one:


Microsoft Cash Promotion Award


20 Craven Park, Harlesden


London NW10


United Kingdon








We have sent you a mail as regards your Microsoft Cash Promotion Award Winning Claims . We did sent you a mail as regards how to claim your prize winning package which includes the legal document (paper work) and your certified winning cheque that will back up your winning claims and i do believe that you have not claimed your won prize.





I quite understand your skepticism and with the look of things you are still skeptical about your prize money. I want to state categorically clear here that the only thing I can deduce from the reservations/thoughts you expressed in your email been sent to me from your claims officer Mr.Fedrick Depp,to my own look of things as the General Manager Europe Microsoft Corporation,is the fact that you are probably scared or jittery because of the magnitude of the funds you won.





As you know that we don't encourage or entertain any exchange of money because the Microsoft Cash Promotion Board Athourity do not demand payment from winners, ours is to serve according to the limitations of the law and not getting ourselves involved in shady deals that is contrary to the ethics of this noble profession. It is the Bank or the Courier Company that will effect and deliver your winning claims that is demanding payment so as to transfer your prize-winning money.





There is an insurance policy on the coverage of your winning money, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from your total prize winning funds because of the misappropriation of winner’s funds and litigation we have faced from the past winners. You will agree with me that no Government will allow such amount of funds to leave its shore without proper documentation as to the originality of the funds, only with the required documents will payment be made out.





It might interest you to know that due to very strict regulations there is a procedure that was laid down by the British Lottery Affairs Commission as well as the insurance policy on the coverage of your winning funds. I want to bring to your notice that these policies laid down by the Microsoft Cash Promotion Award Board state that total prize money has been insured to the real value and as such cannot be deducted from the winnings. The constitutional assembly in accordance with section 13(n) of the national gambling acts as adopts this in1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996.





This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds. That is, your prize winnings is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the prize winning money before it can be remitted to you. These regulations/Policies have been put in place to check previously experienced mishandling and/or misappropriation of winners' funds and we are obligated to act in line with these policies.





The lottery Office is doing this to avoid people involve in frivolous Act not to Con people of that heard Earn Money and we are obligated to act in line with these policies as such we cannot deducted any charges from your winnings because your prize winning money is already insured. NOTE: I must state here that they are lot of Internet scam through the internet and we have had series of complains from past winners and we have also face a lot of litigation from them too regards people using the name of Microsoft Cash Promotion Board Authority.





Please be informed that we are not unaware of Internet frauds that are prevalent around the world presently, there is alarming rate of Internet Fraud going on now around the Globe via Internet, the name of our organization has been used in the past by these con artists, some of whom we have duly prosecuted in the court of law. So I want you to be very careful of whom you deal with.





According to united kingdom, the London laws, this offence is subject to as much as 6 years in a federal penitentiary if found to be truly involved in this manner of fraud. Furthermore, London has reciprocating laws that may allow us to find any person who is involved in this type of fraud in whatever country of origin and prosecute them and their associates or firms. Furthermore, I would not blame you for your skeptic considering the high level of internet scams these days, you are a winner and you have nothing to worry about, you should count yourself very lucky because I for one have never won anything all my life.





If only we as a staffs were allowed to partake in the Promotion e-games who knows I could be a lucky winner because I really would make good use of my winnings. I believe all winners have always been given an option to process or forfeit winnings.





But I am truly sorry about your feelings right now but you must understand this is no illegitimate operation. I am truly sorry about this, you probably want to withdraw from procedures, but I must inform you that this is legitimate and I will not deviate from the ethics of this noble profession. I am giving you my words that this is not in anyway related to scam as our job is to serve according to the limitations of the law and not getting ourselves involved in what that is contrary to the ethics of this noble profession.





I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this Services as we will not involved in any fraudulent act and will never be. I will advise as you as the director of operations to be calm not to loose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangled but the chances just couldn’t come for them because a lot of people are out there to discourage you as they don't know how it works, and have never seen such before.





Do be assured that your parcel is insured under Highly Sensitive Package (HSP) for international delivery. As you know your winnings could do a lot for you and your family and also have funds to upset other bills. NOTE: There is option of forfeitures as to file a disclaimer.





Finally,do acknowledge this office when the claim is been delivered to you in good condition so that it could be stated that a e-game winner of the month October 2007 has been claimed by the recipient of e-games E-MAIL RANDOM SELECTION (POWERED BY MICROSOFT WINDOWS) .





Once again congratulations from the management of the Microsoft Cash Promotion on your consolation price winning,we hope that you will use the winning for good cause.





Congratulations!! once again.


Yours in service,








MR. Silviu Hotaran


(General Manager Europe)


POWERED BY MICROSOFT WINDOWS.

Does anyone know where I forward this to "the real Microsoft?"?
Microsoft and Yahoo sadly cannot do anything about these scams. The messages come from computers which are taken over by hackers and used for this purpose. It is almost impossible to catch these people. The main thing is for us to be careful not to fall for their scams. Don't answer just delete them Good luck and be careful.
Reply:There isn't, except for info@microsoft.com perhaps. They won't mail you unless you mail them.