I’ve won three million Euros from Bill Gates!

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share.

I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation!

I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fights poverty around the world and promotes healthcare, even ran a lottery – let alone that I had entered. But clearly, I did and now one of their representatives has been in touch to tell me the good news.

Bill and Melinda Gates are renowned around the world for their incredible generosity – they’re not only planning to give millions away to me, but they’re also happy to employ staff who spells the boss’s surname incorrectly. It’s great that Bill and Melinda are not adverse to employing people with literacy problems.

Counting isn’t this emailer’s strong point either. He’s managed to attach a grand total of 69 files to this email telling me about my windfall. Eventually I found the right…

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, on Mastodon at @[email protected], or drop him an email.