If you fell for this scam, we really feel sorry for you; you must get scammed on a daily basis. Why do we say this? Well, this scam includes so many, many obvious elements of a scam, and they are so ridiculous that we can't imagine anyone believing it. There are many signs that this is a fraud, not the least of which is that M icrosoft never has and never will sponsor a lottery, of any kind.
Bill Gates has made that pretty clear. Is there any way we make make that more clear? And, by the way, Microsoft is not, does not, and will not ever send you to DisneyWorld. They don't "test the internet", nor sponsor email lotteries to "promote use of the internet". The scammer can not even spell "hundred" correctly. Pigs will fly before Microsoft sponsors a lottery together with AOL. The sentences don't even make sense.
Hardly what a professional i. Note the other clues to an obvious fraud that we have highlighted in the letter; keep confidential, selected by a random computer lottery of email addresses, use of free email accounts, etc. Master list of sample lottery scam emails.
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I would recommend you to report this to abuse microsoft. This warning is from the Microsoft website :. You have not won the Microsoft Lottery.
Recently, Microsoft customers have become a target of this scam with false e-mails promising that you've won "The Microsoft Lottery. We're sorry to say that you did not win the Microsoft Lottery, because there is no Microsoft Lottery. All rights reserved. Updated Jul MVPs are amazing individuals who display a deep, passionate desire to take their community peers along as they race to be on the bleeding edge of technology. So, my favorite thing about my role is the sheer pleasure of enabling and empowering them in this noble endeavor.
Community is the epitome of passion! It takes tremendous levels of passion to get out of home on a weekend or a late night for a community initiative, when one would rather relax or spend time on oneself. Yet, every community member still does it every single time!
I am a bibliophile, storyteller and biker, in that order. Someday, I hope to go on a long bike tour covering lesser-known monuments, which I would like to make into a coffee-table book as well as a movie! What better way to bring all my passions together :. I returned to my hometown in to put a pause on my overseas life due of family. Getting settled in Beijing and re-learning the working culture locally is not an easy thing.
I love to work in the IT industry as a woman. I lived in Toronto, Canada for 8 years where I experienced cultural diversity. It seems I choose to always lives in cold places. I am happy to face all different challenges; and I love to succeed. In my life, travel is very important to me and I am always excited to explore new places, meet new people and see a new culture.
Walking around all over the world would be my dream come true. I love to build relationships with more people, the community spirit that evolves from sharing the same interests, and meeting new people who are dedicated to what they love. People are my favorite part of this role! I earned my degree in Computer Science and have always had a special affection for collaborative solutions and management methodologies, and that is where Microsoft started to change my career.
Back in , I had the honor of being nominated as a SharePoint Server MVP and with that came the opportunity to know most of my friends. Interacting with communities and amazing leaders on a daily basis is a remarkable experience. Seeing the passion and willingness reflected in their activities, just inspires us to do more. In , after a very good personal experience at Silicon Valley I came back to Brazil and posted the Vale Digital Manifesto with the goal to develop a community where we connected the Public Sector, Private Enterprises, Academic Institutions and the Society to transform our reality by doing and not waiting.
I graduated from the University of Washington and began my career with Microsoft a few years following working across the business in several roles including OEM Technical Account Manager prior to joining the MVP team.
The technical influencer community is truly incredible which inspires my every single day, and I am always excited to meet the members of the MVP community from around the world!
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, swimming, skiing and spending time with friends and family. At that time, I was a newsgroups contributor! I love to spend time and to collaborate with passionate people, whatever their passion is. With this role, I have a lot of opportunities to do that! I also really appreciate belonging to an international worldwide team, which is extremely interesting from a language and cultural point of view.
For me, community means sharing spirit, respect, and willingness to make others grow. And of course, passion is part of it too. I take pleasure in doing what others say is impossible; always looking at how things can be done. I am a creative individual dedicated to creating success stories coupled with positive community experiences.
Growing up in an international environment enabled me to see the world from a different perspective: the perspective of new emerging technologies and their interconnectedness with local communities. My favorite thing about this role is working with authentic and genuine people and local communities.
Community to me is the movement of unique people passionately working together towards a shared goal in order to make a difference and positively impact others. A community is diverse and inclusive, welcoming everyone in its quest to better the world. A fun fact about myself is I love organizing expeditions to remote places and am an avid rock climber, mountaineer, and skier.
I sailed across Southeastern Alaska, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, trekked across Peru, watched the sunrise atop Mt.
Born and raised in Japan. Before joining Microsoft, I worked as a software test engineer for 4 years and made efforts to improve the quality of the car audio system for popular luxury cars of the United States and Germany. In my private life, I love watching baseball game at the ballpark with having a beer.
Community connects person to technology with enthusiasm. And, community connects person to person with love. How wonderful community is! I was born and raised in New York. Most recently I worked as a developer relations associate at Elastic, a data analytics company. My responsibilities included management of meetups and conferences.
Helping to support that process has been very rewarding. I enjoy being a position to help MVPs to share their work and ideas with the tech community at large. I really love challenging myself with more and more complex combinations. Before becoming a community manager at Microsoft, I worked as a Product Marketing Manager for various online products at the company.
Previously, prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at internet companies as a strategy and business planning manager. During that time, I also started my own venture start-up company, specializing in online content and community building for targeted audiences like university students, businessmen, and women, etc.
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