How ever, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. Picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

However the results were released on the 1th September, 2006 and your email was attached to ticket number (HTT726W) and ballot number (BT:5643325/30) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 30,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annualįinal draws held on the (28TH AUGUST, 2006) by pepsi world Promotion, your email was among the 16 Lucky winners who won £500,000.00(Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings) each on the pepsi company promotion. THE PEPSI COMPANY OFFICIAL SEASONAL PRIZE PROMOTION 2006 X-Originating-Email: “BRAIN HUNT” CONGRATULATION’S YOUR EMAIL HAS EMERGED AS ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNER Received: from mail pickup service by with Microsoft SMTPSVC

Received: from () by with Microsoft SMTPSVC(.1830) The u/m names may also coincide with real ppl not involved in the scam. By December 1997, it reported more than 8.5 million subscribers.Attached below is the email on the fake Pepsi, scam.Īs we can see from the mail header, the mail originates from free email address at hotmail, and using Yahoo! email for subsequent dealings. Hotmail was initially backed by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The name 'Hotmail' was chosen out of many possibilities ending in '-mail' as it included the letters HTML, the markup language used to create web pages (to emphasize this, the original type casing was 'HoTMaiL'). It was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, symbolizing 'freedom' from ISP-based email and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world. Hotmail service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet along with Four11's RocketMail (later Yahoo! Mail).

Microsoft released the final version of Hotmail in October 2011 and it was replaced by in 2012. is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft.įounded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith as Hotmail, Microsoft acquired it in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and launched it as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite of products.

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