Email Scam Example: Microsoft Partnership

Microsoft

Hello, Customer

Confirm Receipt of this mail with Ref. No.: 420C/MCA,
Batch: 864/17.

This is an official notification to you by the board of trustees of Microsoft Partner Awareness Team as one of the recipients of cash Grant Award for your personal business and community development. Microsoft Partner Awareness Team is conceived with the objective of humanitarian growth and community development. When our giving program began in 1983, approximately 200 Microsoft employees raised $17,000 for non-profits. Today, more than 35,000 employees participate in the campaign, which is approximately 65% of Microsoft’s total U.S. workforce. Now we’ve reached a milestone that really has us shouting for
joy: our 32nd Employee Giving Campaign, and $1 billion in employee contributions to more than 31,000 non-profits around the world since 1983.

To celebrate the 32nd anniversary program, Microsoft Partner Awareness Team is giving out a cash donation of
£1,864,000.00 GBP each to 6 lucky recipients and you are one of the lucky recipients. Quickly confirm the receipt of this mail by filling the form below correctly and you will be duly informed on what next to do. At Microsoft, giving is ingrained in our culture, a cornerstone of our citizenship and as our employees will tell you, one of the most rewarding — not to mention fun — aspects of our jobs.

Endeavor to contact Microsoft Partner Awareness Team, United Kingdom with the following details below alongside your (Ref No.: 420C/MCA, Batch: 864/17) to avoid unnecessary delay.

General Counsel & Executive President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft® Brad Smith
E-mail: microsoftpartnership@naver.com
Website: https://mspartner.microsoft.com
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/philanthropies/our-employees)

(i) Name: (ii) Occupation: (iii) Address: (iv) Telephone:
(v) Email:

Congratulations from the staffs & members of the Microsoft Awareness Team.

Signed

Satya Nadella
Executive Chairman, Microsoft Corporation

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This message, including any attachments, is confidential, privileged and for the sole benefit of the person(s) or entity to whom it was intended to be addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and destroy this message. You may not copy, disclose, distribute or deliver this message or its contents to anyone, nor use it for your own or someone others benefit. Any opinions in this message are those of the sender, and are not necessarily reflective of the company’s policies. Although this message and its attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that these are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the company for any loss or damage arising from receipt or use thereof. Microsoft is not responsible for the timely and correct receipt of this message.
Furthermore you are notified that any and all liability of Microsoft is limited to the amount which is paid out in the matter concerned under the insurance coverage of the company.
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