I'm not really sure if this is a new thing but here's a heads-up.
I just received an email from "Microsoft", pretty pathetically made if I do say so myself, from the sender alice.cartaud@univ-lille3.fr which said:
"Váš e-mail ID získali odmenu vo výške $ 900,000.00 od spoločnosti Microsoft. Odoslať. Meno: Mobil: Krajina: Age."
"Your e-mail ID receive a reward of $ 900,000.00 from Microsoft. To send. Name: Mobile: Country: Age."

Now, why am I sharing this totally poorly made scam with this, a very well informed, community? Mostly because of your parents :)
If your moms/dads/grandparents are anything like mine and they get this email which shows, at first glance, as if it was sent by Microsoft they'll probably freak out. You know, an "official" email they can't read without using a tanslating engine.
I know I had a bit of a "WTF?! I got hacked?! Aaaaaaa, noooo! This is my Steam email! O.o" moment when I got the notification on my phone xD

Anyway, is this a new thing or has this been going around for a while and I've just now had the pleasure of reporting it?

8 years ago

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Wow, congrats, pal. 900k$ is a big amount of money, not sure if I'll ever have this many in my entire life. You must be a very good friend of Mr. Gates.

8 years ago
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I know, right?
Just moments later I got another one of these and, this time, in my native language and from a different Microsoft corporation's headquarters! That's like double the amount!
Billy boy sure know how to show appreciation to his friends xD

8 years ago
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better then getting monthly emails about "breaking" blizzard company rules and your blizzard account well be banned if u don't "login" xD
i always get those 1 time a month and i don't even have a blizzard account, said person might be a moron sending that email from a different email address every month like he has nothing better to do

8 years ago
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But just imagine how many people fall for it since it's clearly worth his time :(

8 years ago
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Never had a Blizzard one despite having an account but I used to get a load of ArenaNet ones when I regularly played Guild Wars.

8 years ago
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Official Microsoft emails have a green shield on them. Or is it a green heart? Or am I thinking of blue hearts from here?

8 years ago
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If the email had a blue heart on it I wouldn't stand a chance against its power. One does not simply ignore a message when there's a blue heart next to it :D

8 years ago
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Then many of us would fall prey...;)

8 years ago
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just $900k? I wouldn't even bother...

8 years ago
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Noooo, as I just said in the comment above "just moments later I got another one of these and, this time, in my native language and from a different Microsoft corporation's headquarters! That's like double the amount!" I just might give it a go now that it's double! xD

8 years ago
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still low, i got $4.2m last week from my prince <3

8 years ago
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You're welcome again.

;p

8 years ago
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Pffft to this then! I need to find a prince ASAP

8 years ago
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Don't we all.. :X

8 years ago
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Ikr, bus fare... smh

8 years ago
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A Nigerian prince warned me about that guy.

8 years ago
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Is this Mullins' prince or is this one still single and available? ;D

8 years ago
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Wow congrats! :3

8 years ago
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Thank you! :D xD

8 years ago
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think of all the Fallout4 and NoManSky you can buy using that much moniez!

8 years ago
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Ooooh, you're right! I'm sending them my info right now! xD

8 years ago
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come to think of it, send me your info. i'll make sure they get it
did i make myself believable?

8 years ago
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But if I don't send you my credit card details also then they won't know where they can send my money. :'(((
naturally :D

8 years ago
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Wouldn't really call it new. Around '12, I "won" similar large amounts at least twice a week.

8 years ago
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And what have you done with all that money? I'm having problems figuring out what to do with this miserable amount I've won :D

8 years ago
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I bought 100,000 copies of Bad Rats (it wasn't only 1 Euro back then) and gave them away on a forum. :D

8 years ago
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Ok.

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8 years ago
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You too? We'll be rich together <3

8 years ago
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Dat "PLS CALL" tho...

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8 years ago
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Grats.
Ask them to deposit the money to your steam wallet.

8 years ago
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Isn't the Steam wallet maximum $500?

8 years ago
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900.000 dollars gets in handy at the summer sale.

8 years ago
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900k?
Try 9 billion!

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8 years ago
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Wow. You could buy a country with that.

8 years ago
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it's all about CHARITY!

8 years ago
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Why you people always win? While I have to always pay?

  • log in here or your post will cherge 20$ for holding your package (chek is satus ere).
  • pay us 500$ or we will tell police what sites you are browsing.
  • pay us (insert random number here) and we will enlarge your lower parts ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°),
  • pay us and we will recover your stolen (steam/blizzard/origin/bank/auction service and so on) account (insert all your personal/login/credit card data here).
8 years ago
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in gmail scam emails are automatically removed

8 years ago
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I got this one through Gmail

8 years ago
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weird

8 years ago
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man I am soo jelly right now, you won a lot of money from microsoft, I hope to get the same email to, gonna check spam/fraud folder, hope I find it there. Use the money well, peace.
P.S Also you won 900.000$ and no giveaway ? come on.

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I'm Nigerian royalty and I need you to send me all of your money, one of your kidneys and your first born child so I can get home and send you $10,000,000. This is totally legit. While you're at it, figure out why God keeps telling people with terminal cancer to give me all of their money. I seriously get at least one e-mail like this every couple of weeks and I'm convinced that Google Translate has become self-aware and is trying to steal my identity.

8 years ago
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On the other hand, I got an email from "Microsoft" that my hotmail password was recently changed. The thing was the fake MS email looks very similar to the real MS email.

8 years ago
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hey its me bill gates...

8 years ago
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Please do a 999 copies Bad Rats giveaway with that money!

8 years ago
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8 years ago
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Talk about globalization... French E-mail address, Slovak text, Potatia recipient. :3

8 years ago
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Lol u won 900k and no over 9000 GTA V giveaways, what a shame! ┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻

8 years ago
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OH SHIT shots fired!

8 years ago
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My thoughts exactly :D

8 years ago
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Polish email from french account telling you about Microsoft, seems legit :D

8 years ago
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My Mum is in her 70s, and has been getting lots of phonecalls from fake "Microsoft Technical Support" ... good luck with that, as not only does Mum know better than to listen to them, I installed Linux on her computer years ago :P She gets stressed out by scam emails like this though, and worries that she's been compromised somehow.

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