Crime Online: Yahoo and Microsoft Windows Lottery?

How about this colourful scam e-mail? It shows you how the "boys" use a little fantasy to come up with a new Lottery. Yahoo and Microsoft Windows would you believe?

That and a bit of HTML makes a wonderful looking e-mail .....

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From: WINDOWS LIVE <florina_bent0117@hotmail.com>

Date: Jan 28, 2007 2:01 PM

Subject: YOU HAVE WON THE YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY £500,000.0

To:

Yahoo/Msn Lottery

Incoperation

Baley House, Har Road

Sutton, Greater London

SM1 4te

United Kingdom.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the month of JANUARY 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788

These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can claim your winning fund.

1. Full name..............

2. Contact Address........

3. Age....................

4. Telephone Number.......

5. Marital Status.........

6. Sex....................

7. Zip Code...............

8. Occupation.............

9. Company................
11.State:.................

12.Country................

13.Nationality............

14. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)

Name:Mr.Gran Louis

E-mail:verification_microsoft_dept00@yahoo.co.uk

Phone:+44-701-114-7415
Fax:+44-870-479-6623

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!