I received an email informing me that I have won the microsoft lottery.Is this real?or just a spam?

It's definitely fraudulent.

You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.... )

However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/l...

Microsoft Advisory
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yoursel...

spam

It's a Scam to get your personal info.

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