Microsoft Award Team: MSN/511-007-12 – Identity Theft

Microsoft Award Team [msnexciteunit@excite.co.uk] – MSN/511-007-12 is just another piece of electronic mail that is floating around on the Net. Identity thieves and other criminals can’t wait for you to respond. I hope that after reading this email you deleted it, and if you are reading it for a first time, I hope you will try to avoid identity theft scams like this one at all costs. Here’s the juicy stuff:

Microsoft Award Team
Microsoft London (Cardinal Place)
100 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 5JL

It’s with great pleasure to announce to you, that you just won the sum of 500,000.00 GBP (five hundred thousand pounds sterling). In the MSN AWARD TEAM PROMO. The Microsoft word is offering a free donation to hotmail and msn subscriber, including other web-based email ID and domains. So if you receive this letter of notification you are also a winner and you are required to participate.
Our online ballot box machine selected your email ID automatically, with the following information affiliated to your email ID.
Your Identification numbers are given below.

Reference #: MSN/511-007-12
Batch #: MW/JO/612NG

You are advice to contact the MSN AWARD TEAM claims agent with immediate effect to facilitate the release of your winning prize.
When contacting your claims agent, you are to furnish him with your reference and batch number along with the required information below:

Name Of Winner: ___________________
Sex_________________________
Nationality: ________________
Age: ______________________________
Occupation: _____________
Marital Status: _____________
Tel No: _____________ Fax No: _______
Postal Address:
Country: _____________________
Winning E-mail Address: _____________

Claims agent contact details:
Mr. Douglas Gary (MSW officer)
Tel: +447031937306
Email: verifynumber@hotmail.co.uk

Please contact him as soon as you receive this notification email…Once again congratulations.

Best regards,
Danielle M Garshott.
Executive Secretary/Co-ordinator.

Well, that’s that. Now you can see how obvious some of these identity theft letters can be. This one asked for so much personal information and promised so much. In the end, it is the vary and prepared that will not get tempted into the fraudulent circle of crime. Don’t become another statistic. Protect yourself from identity and personal information theft by reading this and other blogs.