According to researchers from Avira the security company, one spam mail has been recently hitting Internet users, while asserting that it is from certain Microsoft Lottery, which in reality doesn't exist. Softpedia.com reported this in news on December 22, 2011.
The e-mail, congratulating the recipient, tells him that he's one of the winners selected when the Microsoft/AOL/Nokia award anniversary over the Internet was conducted at 2011 starting. Microsoft as well as AOL with Nokia mobile-phones is presently executing one beta test; consequently, a $1,000,000 award has been announced for anyone winning this test, the fake electronic mail states.
Reportedly, cyber-criminals in this scam aim at ensuring that the maximum possible people would believe it, while that is perhaps the reason why they used Nokia's and AOL's names in addition to Microsoft's. And in case anyone would think that a Microsoft Lottery is non-existent he may at least be convinced of the portion relating to the reward from Nokia or AOL, the criminals hope.
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