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Gmail is a product of Google, and Outlook a product of Microsoft. Since these two corporations are vicious rivals, I seriously doubt that they would collaborate to reward users. It is most likely a phishing scam.
I don't know what O.S. you have,but maybe you are talking about sync google chrome and outlook express, it is real and easy / go to setting (on gmail top right corner ) setting one more time > click on forwarding and POP/IMAP > turn able the Forward a copy of incoming mail to option ( your Outlook email address ) > scroll down and click to save the change, done!
First off they did not even spell winners right in the address and second did you enter the contest? If no then its a scam if it was from gmail it might have gmail in its address not consultants. Next Did they address you directly as in use your real name address or anything that is personal to you and not just your user name. also look at the address they sent it to if it is to someone else and you included its a fake. These are just a few things to look for in fakes anyone of them will tell you its fake. Mainly the first one.
This is a scam that goes around periodically, and is usually tied to phishing. See here for some general details on this type of scam- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam. You can Google "Gmail lottery scam" for more information on this specific scam.
Whatever you do, please don't provide any personal info or respond that that email.
ITS A SCAM BY A GROUP OF MOTHER ******* BEAWARE OF THIS EMAIL FRAUD
Lottery scam is a type of advance-fee fraud which begins with an unexpected email notification that "You have won!" a large sum of money in a lottery. The recipient of the message - the target of the scam - is usually told to keep the notice secret, "due to a mix-up in some of the names and numbers," and to contact a "claims agent." After contacting the agent, the target of the scam will be asked to pay "processing fees" or "transfer charges" so that the winnings can be distributed, but will never receive any lottery payment.[1] Many email lottery scams use the names of legitimate lottery organizations or other legitimate corporations/companies, but this does not mean the legitimate organizations are in any way involved with the scams.
There are several ways to recognize a fake lottery email:
Unless someone has bought a ticket, they cannot have won a prize. There are no such things as "email" draws or any other lottery where "no tickets were sold". This is simply another invention by the scammer to make the victim believe that they have won. The scammer will ask the victim to pay a fee before they can receive their prize. It is illegal for a real lottery to charge any sort of fee. It does not matter what they say this fee is for (courier charges, bank charges, various imaginary certificates - these are all made up by the scammer to get money out of their victim). All real lotteries subtract any fee and tax from the prize. Scam lottery emails will nearly always come from free email accounts such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, Live, MSN, Gmail etc.
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