sweepstakes

From: a (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:10:20 -0700

You cannot be this naive!!!

It's spam. Delete it and move on.

>-----Original Message-----
>I received an email saying that I won $250,000. It said
>the following.
>All participants were selected randomly from World Wide
>Web sites, email adresses and guestbooks through computer
>draw system and extracted from over 100,000 individuals
>and companies.
>This promotion takes place annually and it is sponsored
by
>Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft and his
>associates to encourage the use of internet and computers
>world wide. For security reasons, you are advised to keep
>your winning informations confidential till your claims
is
>processed and your cheque delivered to your nominated
>address through an approved delivering officer appointed
>specially for this program.
>Has anyone ever heard of this? Is this ligit? And if not
>is Bill Gates aware of his name being used?
>.
>

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