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Surely this is a legit lottery email and not a scam...

This email just showed up in my inbox...

Subject: .YOUR EM,AIL HAS WON,N
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:55:19 +0200
It has finally come to our notice that you have not claimed your winning price. We want to verify if truly you are the owner of the email address that has won the 2012 Microsoft Email lottery draw. Because we have sent the winning notification to your address but you did not write back.

If you are the owner of the email address that has won the Email lottery, we advice you claim your winning price as quick as possible to avoid losing it, as the lottery program might come to an end within the next seven days or next week.

Best Regards.

Dr. Clinton W. E. Bateman (Coordinator M.S. Lotto)
Tel: +44-703-184-1863 +441212880874
EMAIL: infomsloto@mslot-agent.info.ms

Surely this is a legitimate email, right?

The "lottery scam" seems to be growing in numbers, and no end appears to be in sight.


For those not familiar with it, the recipient is typically asked to submit "taxes", "transfer fees", etc.

Here is an excellent resource on the topic:
http://www.fraudaid.com/scamspam/lottery/index.htm

Here are full headers in case anyone in interested...

Received: by 10.112.131.196 with SMTP id oo4csp109311lbb;
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:58:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.68.219.200 with SMTP id pq8mr8566500pbc.55.1334775524668;
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <tanstoseat@try.lotuslive.com>
Received: from outbound1-nonen.mail.lotuslive.com (outbound1-nonen.mail.lotuslive.com. [8.12.152.102])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l3si28833024pbs.4.2012.04.18.11.58.43
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of tanstoseat@try.lotuslive.com designates 8.12.152.102 as permitted sender) client-ip=8.12.152.102;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of tanstoseat@try.lotuslive.com designates 8.12.152.102 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=tanstoseat@try.lotuslive.com
Received: from c-in3ofil01-01.sv2.lotuslive.com (unknown [10.6.31.41])
by c-in3obnd01-03.sv2.lotuslive.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D7F7B2667
for <XXXXXXXXX@gmail.com>; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:55:30 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from c-in3ofil01-01.sv2.lotuslive.com (unknown [127.0.0.1])
by c-in3ofil01-01.sv2.lotuslive.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D831D6FD01
for <XXXXXXXXX@gmail.com>; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:55:29 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from uscl3-no01-ws12.ben.sv2.lotuslive.com (c-in3ws--01-06.sv2.lotuslive.com [10.6.31.114])
(sender tanstoseat@try.lotuslive.com) by c-in3ofil01-01.sv2.lotuslive.com (LotusLive iNotes outfilter/0.91)
with SMTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:55:26 +0000
Message-ID: <20120418185522.30420.qmail@c-in3ws--01-06.sv2.lotuslive.com>
Cc: recipient list not shown: ;
Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.mail.lotuslive.com) (tanstoseat@try.lotuslive.com@31.174.239.199)
by uscl3-no01-ws12.fen.sv2.lotuslive.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2012 18:55:22 -0000
Reply-To: <.a@noreply.com>
From: "*Microsoft* Email Loto*2012" <masxdfg@hotmail.com>
Subject: .YOUR EM,AIL HAS WON,N
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:55:19 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120418-1, 18/04/2012), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
X-CMAE-Score: 0
X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Drp/CRD+ c=1 sm=1 a=Dyoqhi_TatcA:10
a=8uJ5MO_MQBgA:10 a=lGr3UWs4Ur8A:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=Cfj4BQAnxiAA:10
a=PNUFLNqkAAAA:8 a=fP6YYZurAn-X523HlxEA:9 a=vUkLqrBayiBQqtPNAGEA:7
a=Ft8UYL4EG9YA:10 a=pDc5FA69erMA:10 a=4_OkANz4rm5RFRib:21
a=c_pWzpkRV3-DngXB:21 a=WkljmVdYkabdwxfqvArNOQ==:117
x-tagline: tagged

It has finally come to our notice that you have not claimed your winning price. We want to verify if truly you are the owner of the email address that has won the 2012 Microsoft Email lottery draw. Because we have sent the winning notification to your address but you did not write back.

If you are the owner of the email address that has won the Email lottery, we advice you claim your winning price as quick as possible to avoid losing it, as the lottery program might come to an end within the next seven days or next week.

Best Regards.

Dr. Clinton W. E. Bateman (Coordinator M.S. Lotto)
Tel: +44-703-184-1863 +441212880874
EMAIL: infomsloto@mslot-agent.info.ms

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