Strange Email Attachment from Microsoft

[Stormseed]

Does anyone have any idea what is this all about ? I received this as an Word attachment in my personal email (yahoo) account. I scanned this file on various antivirus engines and found it to be safe. I opened it and here you go..something about Lotto Lottery for MS-Word in the UK ?

Why did they send me the email and that too as a winner Its Creepy

 

[Greg Truby]

It's a hoax, or more accurately, a trap. There are several glaring spelling errors. And the "paymaster" has an e-mail domain of gmail.com, not microsoft.com?! That should be a flag by itself.

It's a variant on the old Nigerian oil profits scam which was undoubtedly a variant on something older... You've won big money... if you would just pay a few "processing costs" we will send you your millions...

 

[Patience]

Yes. Do not touch with a twenty foot barge pole. They will take your money and run to the hills, while you are still waiting for yor win.

'Fighting Poverty Round The World' itself makes me feel ill.

 

[Greg Truby]

...'Fighting Poverty Round The World' itself makes me feel ill.

Ah, buy Bryony, that was the only part of the entire message that was actually TRUE! They ARE fighting poverty -- their own!

 

[Patience]

Haha!

You see I wasn't looking at it that way. I was merely being a pedant. Round is the shape of a circle. They should go 'around' the world to fight their poverty.

If only pedantry were an Olympic sport.

 

[Greg Truby]

...If only pedantry were an Olympic sport.

Then surely the Brits would be the odds on favorite for the gold.

http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=186158&d=1032&h=1033&f=1026&dateformat=%o %B %Y

 

[Patience]

Then surely the Brits would be the odds on favorite for the gold.

http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=186158&d=1032&h=1033&f=1026&dateformat=%o %B %Y

Well then, I thought I would get Gold! Seems Gold to Richard, Silver to Neil, and me with measley Bronze. Well I always prefered the colour of the bronze, anyway.

 

[Richard Schollar]

Cheeky sod, Truby!

There was nothing pedantic in that post - the other guy was wrong, pure and simple. He subsequently tried to justify his position with increasingly woolly arguments...

 

[Greg Truby]

...the other guy was wrong, pure and simple. He subsequently tried to justify his position with increasingly woolly arguments...

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Thank you Richard for making my point so elequently.

 

[Richard Schollar]

I might have known I should never have posted to this thread...