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By jimmythejock

Google Email Scam

I recieved a strange email today claiming to be from Google, stating that I have won a lot of money in a draw " £500, 000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away 1Oth Anniversary draws."

The email copied and pasted in full below is either from a moronic, stupid, individual who believes that people will fall for his/her devious (lol) scam.

or Google have employed a moron to run their prize draw.( I seriously doubt this)

As far as I am aware Google are not running a 10th anniversary prize draw and if they were I am sure that they would have advertised it by now and eveyone on internet land would have heard about it by now.

From start to finish the email I recieved is a shambles, mistakes are everywhere, we could start a competition to see who can find the most of them.

Take a look below at the email.

the first thing that you will notice is that it is sent from a Hotmail account, Why oh Why would Google email anyone from hotmail when they have their very own Gmail hosting.

see how many errors and stupid mistakes you can find.

THE STUPID EMAIL

from: mr_francishenson@hotmail.com

toundisclosed-recipients

dateSat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:42 PM

subjectAttn:

Attn: Googler,

This E-mail is to inform you that you have emerged a winner of

£500, 000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our

online Give-away 1Oth Anniversary draws. GoogleUK has

successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away

marking 2008 10th Anniversary in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00

(Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this

Anniversary Draws. No purchases of tickets were required.

Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world

wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine

(Googler) and other Google ancillary services.

Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an

effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used

search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test. Your

email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile

Numbers (CGPN) and attached to the following details: Ticket

number: 00869575733664 / Serial numbers: /BTD/8070447706/06 /

Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) / (CGPN) 7-22-71-00-66-12

was picked among our lucky winners to receive ?500, 000.00

British pounds. Winners were selected randomly through a

computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google

search engine.

YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:

Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12

Ticket number: 00869575733664

Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06

Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

To claim your give-away prize, send the following Your full

names................. , sex...............................,

Location............................Alternate e-mail

address..................Your winning details.................

To your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who have been

assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing.

Your Processing Agent contact:

Mr. Francis Henson

Email: francis.henson01@gmail.com

We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.

Thank you

for using Google.

Sincerely,

Ms. Virginia Squier(promo. Director)

Comments

bkayala 4 days ago

Got it too for 950000 pounds.

Hope they don't infect my computer or something!

BIG D. 12 days ago

GOT AN AWARD TODAY SAYING I HAD WON A 500.000 GBP FROM THE FACEBOOK TEAM -- WHAT A LOAD OF HORSESHIT!!!!!

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mymoonlog 2 weeks ago

....???? I recevin 500,000,00 GBP tody bat this mail is...???

Sachin kumar 2 weeks ago

Hey guys, i have received this kind of mail,i was confused ,but no more,now i know that they r fake.plz guys beware of these kind of mails.

Martyman Canada 4 weeks ago

I just received the same email....I'm a bit perturbed as I only "won" 250,000 pounds

vidush gupta 4 weeks ago

i got same email as above...

i replyed to them to pay my indian custom clearance from my prize or i wil pay the money when i wil get my prize... hahaha...

Google Gmail Incorporation

P.O.BOX 1010,LIVERPOOL L170NL,UNITED KINGDOM.

FROM THE DESK OF HARRY COLE.

==============================

Winning Number: WZ554/30

Parcel Identification Number : FWCS-8035398586

Dear Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the Google Gmail Incorporation online International program. I am happy to inform you that i have forwarded your details to our Diplomat for claims SKY UNIVERSAL COURIER SERVICE you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of the winners in this year's Google Gmail Incorporation. Your winning prize has been verified and approved for payment by this Department. Your Profile (Form) has also been received and filed along with other winning documents for Record Purpose. Delivery will be made to you by a high level diplomatic agent. You are to contact him immediately, via this email (mr.johndavid@w.cn) his Name is Senior Diplomat John David. On contacting him you are to send Your Parcel Identification Number : FWCS-8035398586 as the subject of mail and you are to keep your parcel ID Number very confidential for security reasons and Keep me fully updated as soon as you contact him. The Diplomatic Officer will be Arriving India and you are to send to Our Diplomatic Officer a scanned copy of your ID Proof ( ID CARD/ PASSPORT / VOTERS CARD OR DRIVER LICENSE COPY) to enable him indentify you before he arrives your country (India). Below is his personal/flight information

Diplomat John David

Email: mr.johndavid@w.cn

DISPATCH DETAILS

===============================================

Number of Packages: 1

Fairway Express Service: INTERNATIONAL AND OVERNIGHT

Departure Date/time:- (Monday ) January 9th 2012- 06:25:00 PM

Arrival Date/time:- (Tuesday) January 10th 2012- 09:30:00 AM

===============================================

Our diplomat (Mr. John David) will arrive India to deliver your won parcel to you and further proceed to Malaysia to deliver other consignment after he must have handed over your won parcel containing a valid cheque of 500,000.00 GBP worth 40,200,000 INR ( Four Crore Two Lahks India Rupees) to you.

Your won price parcel contains all of the following items below:

1.) Your Winning Prize £500,000.00 Pounds.

2.) Official Winning Certificate.

3.) Affidavit of claims eligibility.

4.) Documents covering source of winnings.

5.) Brand New HP LAPTOP

Let it be known to you that all taxes has been paid by Google Gmail Incorporation Therefore, you will only be required to pay for the Clearing charges which is 23,500 INR only for the clearing of your consignment from the Indian custom upon the arrival of the delivery officer to your country India. On Mr. John David arrival he shall contact you via your provided phone number as regards his arrival update and you are to make available your INDIAN CUSTOM CLEARANCE CHARGES (23,500 INR ) so that the diplomat can succesfully clear your parcel after payment and obtain an INDIAN CUSTOM CLEARANCE receipt that will enable the stamping in of the parcel into your country. He will then take the next available means to get to your locality and deliver your cheque to your door step and he will also assist you to any of your local Bank and help you cash your winning cheque and take a photograph with you and your family before leaving.

.You are also require to be available at the address you have provided to our office and your mobile phone should be close to you because Mr. John David will be calling you on your mobile phone to give you instruction on how to pay for the custom clearance charge which would be needed at the international airport for clearing of your parcel containing a winning cheque worth five hundred thousand great british pounds in your name.

Mr. John David is a Special trained Chief delivery agent officer highly respected here UNITED KINGDOM, please i advice you act as he instructs you so that you can successfully get your funds transfered immediately into your account on following instructions. KINDLY BE INFORMED THAT WITHOUT THE INDIAN CUSTOM CLEARANCE CHARGES (23,500 INR ) YOUR PARCEL CANNOT BE STAMPED INTO THE COUNTRY AND DELIVERY CANNOT PROGRESS,SO PLEASE YOU MAKE AVAILABLE.

Notice: Please bear in mind that we have sworn a "Letter Of Affidavit" with the British High Court Of Justice, stating that the issued cheque worth Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterlings must not be tempered with or deducted from until it gets to the winner for security reasons. you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your certified cheque is given to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid unwarranted impersonation or abuse of this program by some individual.

Endevour to fill and submit the verifications form below to Mr. John David of UNIVERSAL DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY SERVICES with the above details.

Full Name:

Full contact address:

Tel number:

State:

Be informed that your parcel will be arriving your country within the next 48hrs of receiving this mail

Best wishes and thanks for using Microsoft,

+447010053526 +447010053526 +447010053526

HARRY COLE

Online Supervisor/co ordinator,

INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS,

Google Gmail Incorporation, UNITED KINGDOM.

dev Sheoran 4 weeks ago

ya dey r fake, i got the person who want to take 24,599INR i beated him at airport he ran away......

sobhan 5 weeks ago

I got the same thing

75 Ninth Avenue 2nd and 4th Floors,

Darlaston Road, W1W 9TQ

London, United Kingdom.

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money of (£500,000.00 GBP)©2011 GOOGLE CORPORATION. In line with commemorating event marking of our 30th anniversary. Conjunction with the MICROSOFT CORPORATION. We collects online email for compensation and grant for both past lottery winners and the entire world public for purpose of Infrastructural development as an online compensation for all internet users. All the email addresses of the people that are active online, Among the millions that subscribed to Gmail, Rediffmail and various Microsoft window users, we only select thirteen people every year as our winners, we are congratulating you for being one of the people selected.

Name: Mr. Terry Webster

+447014246716

Email: nfpv@live.com

1. FULL NAMES:

2. HOUSE ADDRESS:

3. OCCUPATION:

4. Sex:

5. AGE;

6. Direct Phone Number::

7. STATE:

8. COUNTRY;

Tansen 6 weeks ago

OMG UR RIGHT I POSTED A COMMENT ON UTUBE ON HIS VID CUZ I GOT THE MAIL AND CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW HE GOT OUR EMAILS? MY NAME IS TIDUSANDJECHT10 SO SEE MY COMMENT

Cyberalongdaway 6 weeks ago

I just got this one and I think it's a scam although I do surveys from Google from time to time. It even comes with files that I am skeptiical to open.

From:

"Google Incorporations Promotion Team"

Add sender to Contacts

To:

undisclosed-recipients

Message contains attachments

1 File (62KB)

* Google Procedures Of Prize Claims.docGoogle Procedures Of Prize Claims.doc

--

Dear Google Award Winner.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our

lucky winners selected this month of December 2011.Please read the Award

Notification from the attach file for your Winning details and procedures,do

contact the claims manager for claims procedures.

The management,

Google Security Department.

It just doesn't sound legit.

Manisha 7 weeks ago

I got this Mail from GooGle Mobile Awards nfpv@live.com

Is It so......,

Plz Reply,

Harish Joshi 2 months ago

i have also get this stupid male....................

renu 2 months ago

i also got this mail...even they called me.... and said etc etc etc...

they demanding 24200rs to pay INDIAN Govt for delivering the money..

fake dokhebaj log...

santosh kumar 2 months ago

ya man i got it today on 23.11.11

obviously its a scam because i got it 1 month ago with different address.

but last time i sent them that i m in delhi, and they called me on chennai airport,but actully i m residing in chennai,i went there but couldn,t find any one then told me to go for online transfer to the account,than i resisted myself,

truly if u will respond u may fall into trouble.

Yes it makes us mad to react but don,t believe because if they are real and they are paying for the taxes than they may also pay for custom charges,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!!SCAM!

Google Gmail Incorporation

30 Leicester Square. City,London.

Count racy, United Kingdom.

Postal/Zip Code, WC2H 7LA

===================================

Dear Winner

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the 13 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions. Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery felicitate with you and your family. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Gmail and Rediffmail and other internet user's.

I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.

Hence all has been set for the diplomat (Mr. Terry Fox) to proceed with the delivery of your winning funds to your home address which you have provided to this office. Our diplomat (Mr. Terry Fox) will arrive India to deliver your won parcel to you and further proceed to Malaysia to deliver other consignment after he must have handed over your won parcel containing a valid cheque of 500,000.00 GBP worth 40,200,000 INR ( Four Crore Two Lahks India Rupees) to you.

Let it be known to you that all taxes has been paid by Google Gmail Incorporation Rediffmail Lottery Board Therefore, you will only be required to pay for the Clearing charges which is 24,500 INR only for the clearing of your consignment from the Indian custom upon the arrival of the delivery officer to your country India.

To avoid any delay of carrying out his duty as stipulated, you are advice to make available the required 24,500 INR when he arrives to enable him fulfill the normal Indian customs clearing obligations at the International Airport for your parcel to be released and pass custom's clearance without hesitation. We advise you keep your winnings confidential until our diplomat arrives your doorstep for a maximum security of our diplomat

DISPATCH DETAILS

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of Packages: 1

Fairway Express Service: INTERNATIONAL AND OVERNIGHT

Departure Date/time:- (Sunday) November 27th 2011- 06:25:00 PM

Arrival Date/time:- (Monday) November 28th 2011- 09:30:00 AM

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kindly note that you have to make a cash deposit of Rs. 24,500 Inr to India custom at the airport before our representative diplomat (Mr. Terry Fox) can proceed to your home contact address given to him.

You are to send us a scan copy of your recent photograph for our diplomat to recognized you as soon as he arrive and also reconfirm your full name, address and mobile number

Please ensure that you co-operate with him and follow his instructions and directives to avoid any delay in handing over your winning cheque to you.The Diplomat (Mr. Terry Fox) will also assist you to any of your local Bank and help you cash your winning cheque upon delivering your cheque to you and take a photograhps with you and your family before leaving.

Once again congratulations from the Google Gmail Incorporation/Rediffmail Lottery Board your satisfaction is our priority and we look foraward to providing you the best of our quality service.

Please Call me if you have any misunderstanding

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards

Mr. Harry Cole

+447014245109

sathishkumar from India 2 months ago

I am also recived as like this. Don't believe as like this mail friends. Takecare....

Google Gmail Incorporation

P.O.BOX 1010,LIVERPOOL L170NL,UNITED KINGDOM.

FROM THE DESK OF HARRY COLE.

==============================

Winning Number: WZ554/30

Parcel Identification Number : FWCS-8035398586

Dear Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the Google Gmail Incorporation online International program. I am happy to inform you that i have forwarded your details to our Diplomat for claims SKY UNIVERSAL COURIER SERVICE you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of the winners in this year's Google Gmail Incorporation. Your winning prize has been verified and approved for payment by this Department. Your Profile (Form) has also been received and filed along with other winning documents for Record Purpose. Delivery will be made to you by a high level diplomatic agent. You are to contact him immediately, via this email (mr.johndavid@diplomats.com) his Name is Senior Diplomat John David. On contacting him you are to send Your Parcel Identification Number : FWCS-8035398586 as the subject of mail and you are to keep your parcel ID Number very confidential for security reasons and Keep me fully updated as soon as you contact him. The Diplomatic Officer will be Arriving India and you are to send to Our Diplomatic Officer a scanned copy of your ID Proof ( ID CARD/ PASSPORT / VOTERS CARD OR DRIVER LICENSE COPY) to enable him indentify you before he arrives your country (India). Below is his personal/flight information

Diplomat John David

Email: mr.johndavid@diplomats.com

===============================================

Departure- Date /Time: 22th November 2011 -5:15:00 p.m (UK TIME)

Arrival Date /Time: 23th November 2011 - 9:30 a.m (INDIA TIME)

===============================================

Our diplomat (Mr. John David) will arrive India to deliver your won parcel to you and further proceed to Malaysia to deliver other consignment after he must have handed over your won parcel containing a valid cheque of 500,000.00 GBP worth 40,200,000 INR ( Four Crore Two Lahks India Rupees) to you.

Your won price parcel contains all of the following items below:

1.) Your Winning Prize £500,000.00 Pounds.

2.) Official Winning Certificate.

3.) Affidavit of claims eligibility.

4.) Documents covering source of winnings.

5.) Brand New HP LAPTOP

Let it be known to you that all taxes has been paid by Google Gmail Incorporation Therefore, you will only be required to pay for the Clearing charges which is 23,500 INR only for the clearing of your consignment from the Indian custom upon the arrival of the delivery officer to your country India. On Mr. John David arrival he shall contact you via your provided phone number as regards his arrival update and you are to make available your INDIAN CUSTOM CLEARANCE CHARGES (23,500 INR ) so that the diplomat can succesfully clear your parcel after payment and obtain an INDIAN CUSTOM CLEARANCE receipt that will enable the stamping in of the parcel into your country. He will then take the next available means to get to your locality and deliver your cheque to your door step and he will also assist you to any of your local Bank and help you cash your winning cheque and take a photograph with you and your family before leaving.

.You are also require to be available at the address you have provided to our office and your mobile phone should be close to you because Mr. John David will be calling you on your mobile phone to give you instruction on how to pay for the custom clearance charge which would be needed at the international airport for clearing of your parcel containing a winning cheque worth five hundred thousand great british pounds in your name.

Mr. John David is a Special trained Chief delivery agent officer highly respected here UNITED KINGDOM, please i advice you act as he instructs you so that you can successfully get your funds transfered immediately into your account on following instructions. KINDLY BE INFORMED THAT WITHOUT THE INDIAN CUSTOM CLEARANCE CHARGES (23,500 INR ) YOUR PARCEL CANNOT BE STAMPED INTO THE COUNTRY AND DELIVERY CANNOT PROGRESS,SO PLEASE YOU MAKE AVAILABLE.

Notice: Please bear in mind that we have sworn a "Letter Of Affidavit" with the British High Court Of Justice, stating that the issued cheque worth Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterlings must not be tempered with or deducted from until it gets to the winner for security reasons. you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your certified cheque is given to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid unwarranted impersonation or abuse of this program by some individual..

Endevour to fill and submit the verifications form below to Mr. John David of UNIVERSAL DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY SERVICES with the above details.

Full Name:

Full contact address:

Tel number:

State:

Be informed that your parcel will be arriving your country within the next 48hrs of receiving this mail

Best wishes and thanks for using Microsoft,

+447010053526

HARRY COLE

Online Supervisor/co ordinator,

INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS,

Google Gmail Incorporation, UNITED KINGDOM.

COPYRIGHT ©2011. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

AGENT_JOHN DAVID(1).jpg

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Ashish 2 months ago

lol m also the victim

Kamal 3 months ago

i have also received an email form some unknown source which is introduces himself as a career of West Capital Bank, which reffered me to West Capital Bank!

raaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 months ago

it is afake and worng mind divert messages

Smriti 3 months ago

Gawd! Thank you. I was baffled recieving that message. I thought it would be a nice gift for my parents. I sent them back, Thank god! I am on the safe side now after reading this. PEOPLE! It is a scam. Wake up!

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jimmythejock Hub Author 3 months ago

fake

koushi 3 months ago

google give the prizes to the users is true or fake??????????

scheherazade UK 3 months ago

I recieved same suppose to be google ticket draw price of £850,000 .

You don't need to be psychic alittle intuition you feel how stubit now and faded method these scums and so thepolice should trace them pity the one who fall for it

And gives informations which are useful for genrating false ID and they use them for more frude wether on line or banks to draw money .

as well as this i recieved so many of these one who has millions and need some one bank account to transfere this incredible amount , it is big joke i just send them back two words

F..... off

Basil Stag Hare. Milk Chocolate 3 months ago

From: "Google.Protomotion.Announcer"

Susan Richard

Promo Announcer

Totally fake. Thanks so much!

Elke 3 months ago

I got an email today from anna.james@googlepromo.org

I replied saying no (no information in the email itself). After I became weary I googled it and found this...

I replied because last week I applied for a job @ Google so I thought maybe it was relevant :( otherwise I would never reply... :(

Sunny Singh 3 months ago

i got the same mail that i have won 500000 GBP alongwith scanned copy of passport of John David and google winning certficate alongwith UNODC(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), Switzerland.

Agene Emmanuel 4 months ago

I receive a mail which inscription is google, at first I started processing but have not spent any money only my passport (scanned) and other information about me I sent to them, when they now refer me to their barrister, I now know is a scam, (that I won 500,000 pounds) after filling the remittance form which they sent, they keep on sending more message so as to enable them get something from. I am convince that this is fake...

the fletch 4 months ago

year i ceep on geting on getting this fingy saying congratuallations u have just one an iphone apple touch and sez u have to click here and tell all of your details.

Pouya 4 months ago

Iv recieved one too ! now they are in south africa !

mine is 840.000 US dollars.

MFs !

Ruind my day !

Sagar 4 months ago

But how can they ignore the label copyright acts of Google or any best branded company.It is one of the advantages which lets them to trap the innocent internet users.I think the companies whose brand labels these spammers are using must have a very strict reputation towards it and this way such spams can be avoided to a great extent!

grace 4 months ago

I got one in my mail box two days ago offering me $400,000 US. It was on "google" letterhead and immediately I was mad/hopeful...! Yes, that niggling little voice in my head says, "but it COULD be real". Hmm, yes, really a scam!

Ok, I'm grateful for the Hub! It confirmed my suspicions. It would have been nice to pay off my house and become completely debt free but not today, Grace.

I'd like to nail these folks to the wall. How do I do this?

thanks!

dnyaneshwar u. suryawanshi 4 months ago

thank you for you do my idea mobile number teak my address

NAME:-DNYANESHWAR UTTAM SURYTAWANSHI

ADD :-At.Post. Amode B.K.

Tal.Dist.Jalagaon

Maharastra India

Mo. :-9623318158

E-Mail:-dnyaneshwarsuryawanshi2011@rediffmail.com

aditi 5 months ago

i recieved an email mnc or some thing like....... that i won a lottry of 50,000$ an laptop and a free trip for us and i have to pay 20,000 as a coutum charge how funny did those hackers really think that we are fool

winner 5 months ago

but i have won it in real.. trust me!!

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jimmythejock Hub Author 5 months ago

SUDHAKARA.ALVA 3 minutes ago

NOTIFICTION PROMOTED BY GOOGLE INC

if you truly believe that this lottery is real then be warned that you will lose a lot of money when you try to claim your prize.....jimmy

SUDHAKARA.ALVA 5 months ago

NOTIFICTION PROMOTED BY GOOGLE INC

Usha nandhini 5 months ago

I got message from gmail and rediffmail board organization.gmailid:ushaalagesan@gmail.com

syzygy 5 months ago

Heh, just got this email:

"©2011 Google Inc" rveltman@fiocruz.br

show details 4:44 PM (4 hours ago)

Dear Gmail user

Your E-m a i l emerged a w i n n e r of £ 500,000.00GBP. (C G P

N):7-22-71-00-66-12, T i c k e t n u m b er: 00869575733664, L u c k y

n u m b e r s: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. B e r n a r d G r a h

a m for more details: E-mail: mr.bernardgraham0011@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Ms. Mary A. Peterson

Nicolette Steenkamp 6 months ago

Google Corporation©

Belgrave House,

76 Buckingham

Palace Road

London. SW1W 9TQ,

United Kingdom.

Winning Number: GUK/877/798/0147

Batch Number: GUK/699/33/0011

Dear Winner,

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully.We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being the winner selected this year. This promotion was held this August 2011.Reason is to set-up and to encourage the active use of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Google search engine. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta test which your email address won 450,000.00 (Four Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and

satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.

A winning cheque will be issued in your name by Google Corporations,

You have therefore won the entire sum of 450,000.00Gbp (Four

Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) and also a

certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning cheque.

You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the

following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:

Google Corporation

Verification Manager.

Mr. Paul Luckas.

Email:verificationdepatment@live.com

MrPaulLuckas@hotmail.com

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.

1) Your contact address:.............

(2) Your Tel:..................

(3) Your Nationality:....................

(4) Your Full Name:................

(5) Occupation/Age:.......................

(6)How do you feel as a winner?...........

The Google Corporations has discovered a huge number of double

claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties

about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of

this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real

winners. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly

confidential until you claim your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the Google interactive Lotteries Board Commission.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Paul Luckas.

Google Corporations 2011.©

Ina's Beads Jewelry 7 months ago

In the end it seams tha we are very lucky and rich :))))

Robles  9 months ago

I got this email today!

THE GOOGLE UK GIVEAWAY PROMO TEAM © 2011.

Belgrave House, #76 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9TQ.

TEL:+44 703 1949460,+44 703 1931229

Fax: +448704710767, +44 700 597 8372

Dear Googler (Winner),

Be informed that your correspondence has been duly acknowledged. Response has been sent to you as file attachment(Microsoft format) below, please kindly download the file attachment to read full details about our 12th Anniversary/New Year Promo and how to claim your cash prize. Endeavour to fill and return the "Prize Released Order Form" that is also attached (in Microsoft format) to enable this office process your payment as early as possible. The form should reach me as soon as possible in order to avoid delay from this office.

Congratulations to you once again!

Sincerely,

MR. BERNARD W. GRAHAM .

Processing Agent, UNIT12AGT

Verification / Processing Office.

Do not believe it! They just want as much information about you as possible to steal your identity! & your cash if you are willing to waste some in this economy!

Robles 9 months ago

Dear Gmail user

Your email emerged a w i n n e r of £ 500,000.00GBP. (C G P N):7-22-71-00-66-12,

T i c k e t n u m b er: 00869575733664, S e r i a l n u m b e r

s:/BTD/8070447706/06, L u c k y n u m b e r s: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact

Mr. B e r n a r d G r a h a m for more details: E-mail: mr.bern.graham001@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Ms. Juliet Thompson.

(This is so fake!)

Ina's Beads 10 months ago

I got a similar e-mail this days, and i had no one to ask about this.

now i searched and i found out that my luky number is also 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

"Dear Gmail user

Your email emerged a winner of £ 500,000.00GBP. (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Bernard Graham for more details: E-mail: bernard.w.graham03@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Ms. Judith Adams"

espen795 11 months ago

i had one to i won 400.000.000 dollars.

lol

greeterjim 11 months ago

Holy Firggin Christ - could anybody be so dumb as to not know this was a scam.

Why would you even do anything but mark it as spam and delete it.

Manon 11 months ago

I got this too:

From: promotion.winners@googlemail.com

Dear Gmail user

Your email emerged a winner of £ 500,000.00GBP. (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12,

Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky

numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Bernard Graham for more

details: E-mail: bernardgraham012@googlemail.com

Sincerely,

Ms. Fiona Jones

suba 12 months ago

i got a mail like this ..

Google Payment Office

to subbi.89@gmail.com

date Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:44 AM

subject CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN VERIFIED AND APPROVED FOR CLAIMS (AIR FLIGHT DETAILS FOR PRIZE DELIVER!!!)

mailed-by live.co.uk

Images from this sender are always displayed. Don't display from now on.

hide details 11:44 AM (1 hour ago)

Google Gmail Incorporation

30 Leicester Square. City,London.

Country, United Kingdom.

Postal/Zip Code, WC2H 7LA

===================================

ATTN:WINNER

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the 13 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions. Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery felicitate with you and your family. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Gmail and Rediffmail and other internet user's.

I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.

hence all has been set for the diplomat ( Mr. Ben Smith)to proceed with the delivery of your winning funds to your home address which you have provided to this office. Our diplomat ( Mr. Ben Smith) will arrive India to deliver your won parcel to you and further proceed to Malaysia to deliver other consignment after he must have handed over your won parcel containing a valid cheque of (500,000.00 GBP worth 40,200,000 INR ( Four Crore Two Lahks India Rupees) to you.

Let it be known to you that all taxes has been paid by (Google Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery Board).Therefore, you will only be required to pay for the Clearing charges which is Rs. 35,500 INR only for the clearing of your consignment from the Indian custom upon the arrival of the delivery officer to your country India.

To avoid any delay of carrying out his duty as stipulated, you are advice to make available the required Rs. 35,500 INR when he arrives to enable him fulfill the normal Indian customs clearing obligations at the International Airport for your parcel to be released and pass custom's clearance without hesitation. We advise you keep your winnings confidential until our diplomat arrives your doorstep for a maximum security of our diplomat.

Please note that your custom will demand for the list charges below:

Custom Clearance Fees : 15,500 INR

Registration Of Package : 10,000 INR

Immigration Charges : 10,000 IN

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TOTAL AMOUNT = 35,500 INR

Important message

Arriving at India from London Heathrow on Wednesday 2nd Feb

Flight number From To Scheduled Departure time Arrival Terminal Updated arrival time

BA0143 LRH DEL 3:35 2nd Feb 3 9:50 3 Feb

According to our flight information booked by this company, the flight will arrived in INDIA then our diplomat will take a local flight or any other possible means to your state where he can locate your designated address. The Diplomat (Ben Smith) will also assist you cash your winning cheque in any of your local Bank and lodge it in your account and then take photographs with you and your family before leaving.

Kindly note that you have to make a cash deposit of 35,500 INR to India custom before our representative diplomat Mr. Ben Smith can leave the airport to your home contact address given to him.Note That you have to fill this form below..

Receiver's Name:

Receiver's Address:

Telephone Number:

Country:

State:

A scan copy of your photo:

Please ensure that you co-operate with him and follow his instructions and directives to avoid any delay in handing over your winning cheque to you.The Diplomat ( Mr. Ben Smith)will also assist you to any of your local Bank and help you cash your winning cheque upon delivering your cheque to you and take a photograhps with you and your family before leaving.

Once again congratulations from the Google Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery Board your satisfaction is our priority and we look foraward to providing you the best of our quality service.

Please Call me if you have any misunderstanding

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Mr. Cox Rooney

Tell No +447017515412

This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information.If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it.If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Please don't print this Email unless you really need to...

ana 12 months ago

I have received this email recently. I from Argentina and I think that it ts a big trap. Someone should do something to these people stop to annoy. Is embarrasing and a shame.

I am very angry about that situation.

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WannaB Writer Level 6 Commenter 12 months ago

I have failed to read all the comments -- I see all the originals of these letters in my spam box every day and they are automatically deleted. Anyone who's been in business on the internet can probably spot spam by its headers. Only a few spammers can get me to open the email by making it iffy enough to trick me with a subject header that really could be applicable. But there are new people entering the online world everyday that haven't built up the experience yet to ID junk mail on sight. Your Hub should help them.

kizuna kenzo 12 months ago

i think that the email that was sent among us is enveloped with a virus.

because when i opened my that mail,

my computer runs strange lately and when i surf the net,another page popped out of my screen, a site that i cant recall it anymore.

but in the end, that guy will receive a very bad karma.

Marlize Liebenberg 13 months ago

same email... but isnt it funny that we all are have the same ticket number bha ha ha ^^, I mailed the jurk back and said: If i won something im not paying any money to get it, they can send a check! Thank you very much! hehehe ^^,

Ejaz Khan 13 months ago

here is what i recieved, i think Google should take stern action against such people.

Ejaz Khan

Pakistan

©2010 Google Promotion

You won £ 500,000.00GBP. (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number:

00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky

numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact me, Mr. Graham Benfield for more

details: E-mail: mr.graham.benfield231@gmail.com

gil francisco 13 months ago

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1 de 137 Anteriores ›You won £ 500,000.00GBP. (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Bernard Graham for more details

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mostrar detalhes 19:28 (17 horas atrás)

esse homem proprietario desse email abaixo ele fica falando que a gente ele se dentifica como foncionario do google

Contact info:

Mr. Bernard Graham

E-mail: mr.bernardgraham@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Ms. Christine Paul

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kentutberapi 13 months ago

the following email comes with a certificate with your name on right?

Paul 13 months ago

O My Gosh! Nearly fell for it! I just find it weird for them to ask for my bank account information!!! but my fear is i have sent them some of my personal infos? how will this affect me? help!!!!

Anna 14 months ago

This is mine:

You won £ 500,000.00GBP. (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact me, Mr. Graham Benfield for more details: E-mail: graham.benfield342@gmail.com

taffy cat 14 months ago

I got the same one from Google....told them to contact my lawyer for the information they needed before I could get my winnings.....strangely they never responded....

Ulric 15 months ago

Another funny thing I noticed. I just found an email that looks kinda like yours except it looks really real, although I can tell it is a scam, because Google just settled a law suit against their Google Buzz service, thus now would not be the time to be doing any form of give-away. I have replied to the email asking for contact information for the organization giving away the prizes and for the representative that is supposed to be sending me my prize. I will wait to see if anyone replies and keep you guys in the loop. I look forward to their replay and i expect it to look just as fake as the original message. lol

notice 15 months ago

Your E-mail has Won 1,000,000.00 Pounds by the Casino-Web Lottery Promo.

To file for your claim fill the form below and send it to our

(For Claims Contact)

Name: Barrister Prest Smith.

Tel: +44 701 113 7922.

E-mail: barr_prestsmith03@live.co.uk

Full Name:, Address:,Nationality:,Occupation:,Country:,Age:,Sex:,Tel:

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,

Management.

Kunal Saxena 16 months ago

Hi I receivied Below mail from google.

I dont know about the authenticity of the mail , more over i dont know from where i should find out ?

This is general format of mail sent to everyone they wanted.

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Google Gmail Incorporation

30 Leicester Square. City,London.

Country, United Kingdom.

Postal/Zip Code, WC2H 7LA

===================================

Dear Winner

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the 13 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions. Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery felicitate with you and your family. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Gmail and Rediffmail and other internet user's.

I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.

hence all has been set for the diplomat ( Mr. Tom Cole)to proceed with the delivery of your winning funds to your home address which you have provided to this office. Our diplomat ( Mr. Tom Cole) will arrive India to deliver your won parcel to you and further proceed to Malaysia to deliver other consignment after he must have handed over your won parcel containing a valid cheque of (500,000.00 GBP worth 40,200,000 INR ( Four Crore Two Lahks India Rupees) to you.

Let it be known to you that all taxes has been paid by (Google Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery Board).Therefore, you will only be required to pay for the Clearing charges which is 32,000 INR only for the clearing of your consignment from the Indian custom upon the arrival of the delivery officer to your country India.

To avoid any delay of carrying out his duty as stipulated, you are advice to make available the required 32,000 INR when he arrives to enable him fulfill the normal Indian customs clearing obligations at the International Airport for your parcel to be released and pass custom's clearance without hesitation. We advise you keep your winnings confidential until our diplomat arrives your doorstep for a maximum security of our diplomat.

Please note that your custom will demand for the list charges below:

Custom Clearance Fees : 18,000 INR

Registration Of Package : 4,000 INR

Immigration Charges : 10,000 INR

---------------

TOTAL AMOUNT = 32,000 INR

DISPATCH DETAILS

BRITISH AIRWAY FLIGHTS DETAILS

DEPARTURE TIME: 7:15pm UK time Date 17th/ Oct / 2010

ARRIVE TIME: 10:00 am India time Date: 18th/ Oct/ 2010

Flight No: British Air BR 0014.

According to our flight information booked by this company, the flight will arrived in INDIA then our diplomat will take a local flight or any other possible means to your state where he can locate your designated address. The Diplomat (Mr Tom Cole) will also assist you cash your winning cheque in any of your local Bank and lodge it in your account and then take photographs with you and your family before leaving.

Kindly note that you have to make a cash deposit of Rs. 32,000 to India custom before our representative diplomat Mr. Tom Cole can leave the airport to your home contact address given to him.Note That you have to fill this form below..

Receiver's Name:

Receiver's Address:

Telephone Number:

Country:

State:

A scan copy of your photo:

Please ensure that you co-operate with him and follow his instructions and directives to avoid any delay in handing over your winning cheque to you.The Diplomat ( Mr. Tom Cole)will also assist you to any of your local Bank and help you cash your winning cheque upon delivering your cheque to you and take a photograhps with you and your family before leaving.

Once again congratulations from the Google Gmail Incorporation/ Rediffmail Lottery Board your satisfaction is our priority and we look foraward to providing you the best of our quality service.

Please Call me if you have any misunderstanding

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Mr. Cox Rooney

Tel: {+44} 7017408046 Or {+44} 7017408028.

This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information.If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it.If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Please don't print this Email unless you really need to..

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S.Kavya 16 months ago

HEY i also receive the same mail

Attention : S. Kavya

We acknowledge the receipt of your email & confirmation of details required for your selected payment option. You have been officially cleared for payment by the verifications department of the Google 12th Anniversary Awards programme. Attached is a scanned copy of your award certificate to enable you acknowledge the correct arrangement & spelling of your names.

Be informed that your award certified Bank cheque for £ 500, 000.00 & original copies of five (5) other legal documentations including your award certificate, Money Laundering Protection Certificate & an affidavit of claim as an award winner from the British Government stating that the prize money was legally obtained through the Google Anniversary Awards programme would be sent to you through FedEx courier service. You would also be required to confirm the correctness of your shipping address as written below to avoid wrongful shipment of your award parcel;

Name: S.Kavya

Ref. code: GGL2010/114/M-12

In addition to confirmation of the above shipping details, all international award winners would be required to pay for their award parcel shipment/handling, administrative & insurance charges as calculated below;

FedEx Shipping & handling charges: £ 135.00

Parcel Insurance charge: £ 65.00

Administrative charge: £ 50.00

Shipment Tax: £ 150.00

Total: £ 400.00 = Rs. 30,000.00-Thirty Thousand Indian Rupees only

The Management of Google Anniversary Centre has taken out an Insurance cover agreement sealed with a policy that restrict us from any form of deduction at source to avoid misappropriation of award funds, which is in accordance with section 19A sub-section 2 of the UK Insurance Laws on award money, donation & lottery winnings. Inview of the aforementioned reason(s), the above stated charges MUST be paid upfront before your award parcel is dispatched.

As soon as you confirm your readiness to pay the above parcel shipment charges, we shall provide you with the account details of our representative in India to enable you make a cash deposit of the required shipment fee so that your parcel can be dispatched immediately.

Upon the receipt of the above charges, your award parcel including your certified Bank cheque for £ 500, 000.00 would be dispatched (through FedEx courier) to the shipping address you provided in line with laid down procedures. Note that the period of delivery for International parcels via FedEx courier ranges from 24-72hrs (1-3 working days) depending on your location.

All award winners living outside the United Kingdom MUST claim their prizes not later than 21 days from the date of notification or we'll forced to cancel their files & return their prizes to source as unclaimed. Should you have any question(s) or queries do not hesitate to call or email us for clarifications.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our Promotional programme.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Klas Ollepali

Director of Operations & award Co-ordinator

Google 12th Anniversary Award Centre, London UK.

Tel: +44 871 315 0967 +44 701 099 5209; Fax:+44 870 495 6313, +44 870 471 8742

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Larry Page and Sergey Brin committed 1% of Google’s equity, 1% of profits, employee time, and in-kind giving of products and services to doing good. Keep your award information confidential to avoid double claims.

Whether this is true or not.

baecause they send winning certificate also.

ukbeccie 19 months ago

Can't believe this is still going around - I guess some ppl must be falling for it! This is what I got, deleted it straight away, then fished it out of the trash to share with you.

Is Danny Odle in on the scam?

ukbeccie

You won 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google Online Promotion.You are to

contact Mr Graham Poll Email: mr.graham.poll3@gmail.com for more

information.

Regards

Mrs Debora

danny odle 19 months ago

i actually won 750,000 bps

Clyde 19 months ago

Seems Mr Terry Miller has multiple email addresses ;)

Clyde 19 months ago

This is the one i got

Google/Msn Online Promotion 2010

Dear Googler,

We bring to your notice the result of June 2010 draws as we are glad to inform you that Your e-mail has emerged as one of the lucky winners of

£500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousand British Pounds) in our on-going free online Google/Msn Promotion. Your Winning details are as follows:

Computer Generated Profile Numbers (LFC): 1-4-6-4-73-78, Ticket number:

10007345285690, Serial numbers: UK/007644154/09, Lucky numbers:

2-4-1-45-50-78(97). Contact Mr Terry Miller, for more details through the contact below:

Mr Terry Miller,

Email: terrygm.1@msn.com

Sincerely,

Mrs. Becky Williams.

(Online Co-ordinator)

Fran 19 months ago

Seems like they are still at it. I "googled" Dr. Eli Anderson, who, according to the e-mail received, is the "Coordinator" for the awards promotion and no one of significance pops up. Now wouldn't some that is connected to Google is such a way be listed in their own search engine? Shame on them!

Andrew 19 months ago

Below is what I received today it seems the prize keeps getting bigger:)

Your E-mail just WON £850,000 British Pounds in our on-going Google Promo!

Your details are: Ticket #: 00869575733664, E-mail ID Code :65332, Payment: Category A. Participants for this promo were randomly selected from worldwide range of web searchers who uses Google search engine Googler and other Google ancillary services. For payment, write to Mr. Grahams Benfield immediately on these two Emails: paymentunit.grahamsbenfield@gmail.com & graham.benfield@live.co.uk.

shahar 20 months ago

I have received this mail a few hours ago.

from: Google Promotion ©2010

reply-to mrg.benfield.2009@msn.com

Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP in our on-going Google Promotion...

mailed-by unifesp.br

Your Winning details are as follows: (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket

number:00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky

numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12).Contact Mr Graham Benfield.

Email: winners.g.promotion2010@gmail.com

Eugenia Springer 20 months ago

I received this a few hours ago (It was so ridiculously suspect I had to check it out. I did not respond to the email):

Your Winning details are as follows: (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket

number:00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky

numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12).Contact Mr Mark Johnson.

Email: giveawayteam09@live.com

Scign 20 months ago

I arrived at this page after clicking the top link in the Google search results for "on-going Google Promotion", having received one of these myself. Mine was short and simple, and very similar to Ana's above. Headers and all replicated below (except my email address):

Delivered-To: xxxxxxxxxx

Received: by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with SMTP id p44cs251958wep;

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:06:24 -0700 (PDT)

Received: by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with SMTP id t8mr9390143ybh.97.1276625183329;

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:06:23 -0700 (PDT)

Return-Path:

Received: from smtp.unifesp.br (smtp.unifesp.br [200.17.25.250])

by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 35si3532584ywh.64.2010.06.15.11.06.19;

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:06:23 -0700 (PDT)

Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linda.bernardes@unifesp.br designates 200.17.25.250 as permitted sender) client-ip=200.17.25.250;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linda.bernardes@unifesp.br designates 200.17.25.250 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=linda.bernardes@unifesp.br

Received: from smtp.unifesp.br (localhost [127.0.0.1])

by smtp.unifesp.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4C22EDA55;

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:08:41 -0300 (BRT)

Received: from unifesp.br (correio.unifesp.br [172.22.29.31])

(Authenticated sender: linda.bernardes@unifesp.br)

by smtp.unifesp.br (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C72532EDA36;

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:08:36 -0300 (BRT)

Received: from 188.132.163.10 ([188.132.163.10]) by correio.unifesp.br

(Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:04:32 -0300

Message-ID:

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:04:32 -0300

From: Google Promotion =?iso-8859-1?b?qTIwMTA=?=

Reply-to: mrg.benfield.2009@msn.com

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject: Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of

=?iso-8859-1?b?ozUwMCwwMDAuMDA=?= GBP in our on-going Google Promotion...

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset=ISO-8859-1;

DelSp="Yes";

format="flowed"

Content-Disposition: inline

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.6)

X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP

Your Winning details are as follows: (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket

number:00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky

numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12).Contact Mr Graham Benfield.

Email: winners.g.promotion2010@gmail.com

Jennifer 20 months ago

Scam not that unusual. Currently I have received numerous emails over the past 3 week running similar scams. Here's the list. Two recieved from Central Bank of Nigeria, one each from Dr. Donald Ogaji and Ngozi Philips both claiming they will give me 20% of any profit they make while using my bank account to transfer money. 5 from Robert s. Mueller FBI counter-terrorism division and cyber crime division. Mueller says I get a 2.3 million dollar tax-free payout from oversea somewhere, it only costs $260 dollars to collect. Both Alicia Jones and Esther Moore say I have won $500,000 during a random draw from unnamed internet companies. Ma Delun from the Operations Department of the Bank of China wanted my bank account number and personal information supposedly so we could enter into some sort of business deal. Rosemary Campbell says I won a lot of money in a "trunk box" sceme (whatever that is) I only needed to send her $250 and my personal information. Vanessa Cooke of UK Lottery Internation Promotion INC., says I just won $50,000 and she needs $180 dollars and my personal information to proccess the claim. I was also contacted by Musa Ahmed of South Africa. He wanted my personal and banking information so he could send his family money they needed to survive. Supposedly he had to flee the country and the government froze his accounts. Oh, and by the way I contacted the FBI and the IC3 several weeks ago about someone using the FBI to scam people. Haven't heard back from them, and probably won't.

ana juaristi 20 months ago

Just received one:

You won £ 500,000.00GBP. (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664,

Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact

Mr. Graham Benfield, E-mail: g.promotion.1313@gmail.com

Coming from Google Promotion ©2010

Nandini 20 months ago

Hello, I received the same email you guys are talking about today from Google Online Promotion 2010. Thanks for sharing this with everyone.

Devesh Agrawal 22 months ago

I got the above posted fraud message.

DEVESH K AGRAWAL 22 months ago

THE Google UK GIVE-AWAY TEAM.

Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road

London SW1W 9TQ, United Kingdom. P O Box 1010

TEL:+44 703 1949460,+44 703 1931229

Fax: +448704710767, +44 700 597 8372 .

Dear Googler,

You are welcome to the Verification/payment Processing Unit of the Google Giveaway Team. I am Mr. Graham Benfield acting as the processing/fiduciary agent of all our lucky winners for this year draw. Your email was received and duly acknowledged.please pardon me for the late response. Am pleased to inform you that your email address have been checked and it falls among our 24 lucky winning email addresses for this year draw.

Note, No purchase of ticket was required for this draw, all Participants (email addresses) for this draws were randomly selected from a worldwide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine(Googler) and other Google ancillary services and this is how your email was discovered and used among others for this year anniversary promotions. You have been confirmed as a winner of £500,000 GBP(Five hundred thousand Great British Pound Sterling) which is your winning payout for Category A winners. This cash is from the total prize money of £12,000,000 GBP shared among the 24 lucky winners in this year anniversary giveaway promotions.

Mandeep Singh 2 years ago

Yup - 1 May 2009 and I have just received it. A much shorter one than yours, but the various numbers, including the "winning ticket number" were identical to yours. Also, it was addressed to "none", so how could I have been picked out as the winner? The address they gave for me to contact them was promo.announcement11@gmail.com. Though tempted to flame them, I resisted. ;-)

antti vaalama 2 years ago

I just recieved an email from 2010 GOOGLE AWARD PROMOTION that I have won $500,000.00 USD and a Brand New Toyota Camry 2010 Model Car. I have not had any doing with Google like this. Can You just imagine to win money and a car without doing anything. Fortunately I opened these pages on Google and I have found that everything is SCAM and CRIMINAL.

aBaDy 2 years ago

Here's the one I got:

GOOGLE PROMO

16 jan? 2010 3:00 pm

Reply to: giveawayteam09@live.com

You won £850,000.00 GBP in google promotion.Ticket

number:00869575733664,CGPN:7-22-71-00-66-

12,Serial,numbers:BTD/8070447706/06,Lucky

numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12),giveaway.team.231@gmail.com

----------------------------------------------------------------

This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program

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MsLowrie 2 years ago

Here's the one I got:

GOOGLE HAPPY NEW YEAR PROMO

From: Google Promo 2010 beto@wminas.com

Reply to: mrg.benfield.2009@msn.com

Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £ 500,000.00 GBP (five hundred thousand

pounds) in our ongoing Google Promotion. Your winning details> are: Computer

Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN) :7-22-71-00-66-12, ticket number:

00869575733664, Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky Numbers : 12-12-23

-35-40-41 (12). Contact Graham Benfield, for more> information through the

contact below: Mr Graham Benfield,

Email: info.g.promo2010@gmail.com.

Luis Mancera 2 years ago

For example:

de GOOGLE PROMO

hora local del remitente Enviado a la(s) 04:43 (GMT-02:00). Hora local del remitente: 11:55 ?

responder a grahams.benfield009@8u8.com

para

fecha 1 de enero de 2010 04:43

asunto You won £850,000.00 GBP in Google new year promotion

You won £850,000.00 GBP in Google new year promotion. Ticket

number:00869575733664,CGPN:7-22-71-00-66-

12,Serial,numbers:BTD/8070447706/06,Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12).

For more info, For more info contact Mr Graham Benfield,

Email:benham.promotion2009@gmail.com

Charmaine 2 years ago

I think we should bombard their e-mail address's to really stuff them around. If they got 10000 emails blocking the works they may just give up.

Richard 2 years ago

They almost got me yesterday this is what they sent to me: GOOGLE®

(Uk. Regional Office) Google Incorporations

Stamford New Road,

Altrincham Cheshire,

WA14 1EP

London,

United Kingdom.

Dear winner,

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Google Award Incorporation, in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.)held on the 23RD of october 2009,in United kingdom, A Draft of £450,000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds) will be issued in your name.

For verification purpose be sure to include the following information below

(1) Your residential address:

(2) Your Tel(Mobile):

(3) Your Nationality/Country:

(4}Your Full Names:

(5) Age.

Note: You are to keep your prize information confidential and do not inform any body about your prize until your prize are remitted and delivered to you in your residential home address because lots of people are found of claiming people's prize so you are required to keep all your prize information’s and transaction confidential to avoid your funds not delivered to you.

Do not inform your lawyer anymore Google Award Incorporation will issue you a new lawyer.

follow the link to veiw the promotional website of Google Award Incorporation.

Website: http://www.awards-xp.net

Congratulations

Executive Secretary,

Frank Smith.

Richard 2 years ago

They almost got me yesterday this is what they sent to me: GOOGLE®

(Uk. Regional Office) Google Incorporations

Stamford New Road,

Altrincham Cheshire,

WA14 1EP

London,

United Kingdom.

Dear winner,

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Google Award Incorporation, in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.)held on the 23RD of october 2009,in United kingdom, A Draft of £450,000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds) will be issued in your name.

For verification purpose be sure to include the following information below

(1) Your residential address:

(2) Your Tel(Mobile):

(3) Your Nationality/Country:

(4}Your Full Names:

(5) Age.

Note: You are to keep your prize information confidential and do not inform any body about your prize until your prize are remitted and delivered to you in your residential home address because lots of people are found of claiming people's prize so you are required to keep all your prize information’s and transaction confidential to avoid your funds not delivered to you.

Do not inform your lawyer anymore Google Award Incorporation will issue you a new lawyer.

follow the link to veiw the promotional website of Google Award Incorporation.

Website: http://www.awards-xp.net

Congratulations

Executive Secretary,

Frank Smith.

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iskra1916 Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago

Great hub Jimmy !

These scamsters are scumbags, i wouldnt mind so much if they targetted the rich but they seem to target ordinary folk hoping to get a vulnerable 'mark.'

They need kneecapped!

Patrick 2 years ago

I got almost the same e-mail look!

Dear Googler, Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going free Google Promotion. Your Winning details areas follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN): 11-04-56-05-33-78, Ticketnumber: 10567575888623, Serial numbers: BTD/4071447890/09, Lucky numbers:22-44-01-32-50-78(90). Contact Mr Terry Miller, for more details through thecontact below:Mr Terry Miller, Email: t.errymagt@24.tc Sincerely,Mrs. Becky Williams.(Online Coordinator)

It was send from this adress: Google Online Promotion 2009 (t.errymagt@24.tc)

People beware!!

elisabete lincoln 2 years ago

i got that email too.but mine had a diferent email attached to it i have pasted so u can all see .i told them in a reply i new it was a scam and i was ignoring their emails everyday 3 emails is sent to me saying i have won millions what sucks is one day i may actually win something for real and i will end up deleting it thinking it to be a scam .dont this idiots have anything else to do.i mean who is going to send money to them to relase money that dnt realy exist?

--

Dear Googler,

Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousand

British Pounds) in our on-going free Google Promotion. Your Winning details

are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN): 7-22-71-00-66-12,

Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers: BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky

numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Terry Miller, for more details

through the contact below:

Mr Terry Miller,

Email: terrymunit.2@msn.com

Sincerely,

Mrs. Becky Williams.

(Online Co-ordinator)

Vicki 2 years ago

The interesting thing is that the google mail spam filter is really very good - but it did not pick this one up!

sanjeet 2 years ago

Hey i have also received this type of email,claiming that i have won 500,000 pound.I would like to thank all the user who posted and shared their words here.This is all "bull-shit".Hey Users THANKS.............

I Knew It 2 years ago

I received it too, and knew it was a scam when I saw the prize money was in British pounds. Google is an American company!

Pat 2 years ago

I just got the same email. How can people think that we can drop into this crap specially when it is send from another service supplier.

Diptansu 2 years ago

I got the same mail today .. be careful ..

demillicent 2 years ago

It amazes me that people are still falling for these scams. There are almost daily warnings about internet fraud. Greedy people are always getting scammed. Greed more than ignorance is the reason people lose money to these thugs.

Matty 2 years ago

Thanks for posting this. The email has since changed (much shorter now and includes a name of a person to contact) but it is recognizable by numbers they generated to "identify" you- exactly the same as the ones in yours.

janis 2 years ago

noGoogle Promotions <winners@google.co.uk>adrese atbild?mmrg.benfield09@msn.com

kamdatumsceturtdiena, 2009, 16 j?lijs 01:48tematsSuccess Alert...(Congratulations)

sl?pt deta?as 01:48 (pirms 13 stund?m) Atbild?t

Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion. Your Winning details are asfollows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticketnumber: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details throughthe contact below:

Mr Grahams Benfield,Email: grahamsbenfield002@gmail.com

Sincerely,Ms. Natalie Jones

Jan 2 years ago

Just got this email -

Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion. Your Winning details are asfollows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticketnumber: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details throughthe contact below:Mr Grahams Benfield,Email: grahamsbenfield002@gmail.comSincerely,Ms. Natalie Jones

What am I going to do with all the money?

Ariel 2 years ago

I guess the scammer had become a little... slightly smarter.. I got the same e-mail and the content is exactly the same (apart from the different numbers). Just that for now, they create a different e-mail account.. it's no longer using hotmail, but gmail account! (which makes this scam even more plausible) but still, the huge amount is unbelievable.. it's too good to be true.. Don't fall to prey to this scam =)

Lucky 2 years ago

What? I didn't really win? I just bought a boat and a house...boy, this sux

Beatrix, Jakarta 2 years ago

I also got this kind of email. I thought I would never got this kinda email since I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia. But when I tried to find out about this promotion and ended up in this hub. Gosh.....I finally know that they do this all around the world!

However, below is the email that I received a couple days ago:

fromGoogle Promotions <winners@google.co.uk>reply-tomrg.benfield02@msn.comtodate1 July 2009 00:37subjectGOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!hide details 1 Jul (2 days ago) Reply

Dear e-mail user, Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £850,000.00 GBP (Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details through the contact below: Mr Grahams Benfield,, Email: mrg.benfield04@gmail.com Sincerely, Mrs Anna Janot.

Philosopher  2 years ago

I have received two emails of such kind of scam. One about 1 year ago, and other today. When I got the first one scam email, I honestly responded and exchanged many messages with them until they asked me to pay 1,000 USD first for the wiring cost. I realized it is a scam. After this experience, I can easily recognize whether it is a scam or not. Here are some guidelines.

1. What kinds of email hosting they are using? Can you imagine that a google winning promotion plan would use a hotmail email account?

2. Google the subject they are sending and you will find out the truth, just like this nice bug.

Marvel 2 years ago

Just received one as well. Notice the lame name and the email address where it came from..

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Email: mrg.benfield02@gmail.com Sincerely, Mr Peter Janot.

dateSat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:48 AMsubjectGoogle Online Promo © 2009mailed-byuniv.trieste.ithide details 7:48 AM (1 hour ago) Reply

Dear Valued Customer, Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details through the contact below: Mr Grahams Benfield,, Email: mrg.benfield02@gmail.com Sincerely, Mr Peter Janot.

Crash Johnson 2 years ago

man, I honestly very nearly fell for that, I was just like, "wow, here I am wondering how to find the money to buy luch and now I can get 500 grand?" man, cheers for putting this up man,its good that I can search online and have it debunked. I wonder why they didn't ask for my account details?

Sam 2 years ago

I got one too:

This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of

£1,000,000.00 GBP (One million British Pounds) in our onlineGive-away draws.

YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12Ticket number: 00869575733664Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

To claim your give-away prize, contact

Your Processing Agent contact:

Mr. Francis Henson,Email: giveaways.promonline003@gmail.com

Sincerely,Mrs Konrad M. Johnson.

REVIKUMAR N.V 2 years ago

I got a mail from "Google 10th Anniversary Awards Centre" stating that you have won an award of one million Five HundredThousand Great British Pounds (£ 1.500, 000.00) and asked me to send my address etc. I responded to that query just to check whether it is a valid address. Today I got the response as shown below.

fromganicersary lotto <glotto.pdc05671@gmail.com>toRevikumar Vasudevan <revikumarv@gmail.com>

dateFri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:43 AMsubjectPRIZE PAYMENT OPTION .......................mailed-bygmail.com

hide details 6:43 AM (2 hours ago) Reply

Google 10th Anniversary Awards Centre,94 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4RY, United Kingdom.

Dear Award winner

Attention : Revikumar N Vasudevan.

This is to acknowledge the receipt of the requested data and theconfirmation of your reliability in our 10th Anniversary Awardspromotion.

The original copy of your award certificate and two other documents(Money Laundering Certification & an affidavit of claim as an Awardwinner) from the British Government stating that the money was legallyobtained through the Google 10th Anniversary Awards promotionprogramme will be sent to you via FedEx courier as soon as you meetwith any of the optional requirements listed below. Meanwhile, yourwinning certificate will be sent to you first via email attachment soas to enable you acknowledge the correct spelling & arrangement ofyour names.

We wish to inform you that all authorities involved have certifiedpayment of your Award all amounting to one million Five HundredThousand Great British Pounds (£ 1.500, 000.00) which is your prizemoney from Google Anniversary awards, a for-profit philanthropic wingof Google UK which was organised & drawn through a computer ballotsystem from a combination of different email directories around theglobe. Be informed that instruments for payment for the sum of onemillion Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£ 1.500,000.00) toyou is already in our possession and would be processed upon meetingthe requirements of your selected payment Option. You can now beginthe final step of the claims process, which is the transferring ofyour cash prize into your Bank account or dispatching of a CertifiedBank Cheque through FedEx Courier to your nominated address.

The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1: Your Awards Legal Documents & a Certified Bank Cheque forone million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£1.500,000.00) will be sent to you via FedEx Courier service, which isour assigned courier company. FedEx Courier service would bring yourawards documents & Certified Bank Cheque to the address you providedus with as written below (You are allowed to correct or amend yourcontact information in your next mail):

Name: Revikumar N Vasudevan.Address: Ravi Nivas(H),SMP Colony Road, EroorSouth(PO),Tripunithura-682306,Kochi,Kerala INDIA.

You will be required to send your international passport, driver’slicense or ID card to us via email attachment as it will be used for aproper identification of you during delivery of your Award documentsand Certified Bank Cheque by the FedEx Courier Service.

Option 2: Your prize money will be wired to your bank account via anautomated direct wire transfer system operated by nominated payingBank. Hence you would be required to send in your complete Bankinginformation, i.e.

Account Name:Account No.:Bank NameBank Address:Swift code:IBan (If Applicable):MIR (If Applicable):IFS Code (If Applicable):

I expect an email from you immediately making a selection from the twooptions above. Also call me and inform me so as to hasten up yourclaim process. Call within 7:00 hrs GMT- 22:00 hrs GMT.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being partof our Promotional programme.

Sincerely Yours,

Dr. Charles AnoguaDirector of OperationsPaying center Accra Ghana.Tele/Fax 233 241 879 108------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------After 10 years of establishment, Google Inc is worth over 23 BillionUS Dollars with over 20,000 workers worldwide making it the best andmost successful online search engine around the globe. Keep your Awardinformation confidentail.

morris 2 years ago

its funny that they use gmail and the logo of google, yet google doesnt stop them , trace them , and handle them to the authorities.

GOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away draws. GoogleUK has successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this Draws. No purchases of tickets were required. Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine (Googler) and other Google ancillary services. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test. Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) and attached to the following details: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12), was picked among our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds. Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search engine. YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664 Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) To claim your give-away prize, send the following. Your full names................. , sex...........................

....,Location............................Alternate e-mail address..................Your winning details................. To your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who have been assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing. Your Processing Agent contact: Mr. Francis Henson, Email: giveaways.promoonline003@gmail.com Sincerely, Mrs Konrad M. Johnson.

Adipvpster 2 years ago

Guess what? I just recieved the same e-mail. Although it doesn't seem like the one above, the adresses provided are same

Here it is

Dear Valued Customer,Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below:Mr. Francis Henson,Email: giveaways.promoonline08@googlemail.comSincerely,Mrs Sarah Johnson.

Like I have such luck ^_^

Gary Canton 2 years ago

Hi Folks,

This obvious scam is easily punished. Simply press the report spam button and leave Google and their lawyers sort out thes idiots.

Whatever about not even changing the winning numbers, the scammers didn't even get a native english speaker to proof read their email. Anybody who has English as their first language or even a fluent foreign speaker would have noted the clanging grammar

Report the spam and they will be hunted down by Google who understandably resent their corporate identity being used in this fashion. I'm just surprised that google allow somebody to use their name in the email address.

HIT THAT REPORT SPAM BUTTON..

sYLVIE 2 years ago

I received this kind of e-mail , i just contacted the RCMP and the SQ in Canada at www.phonebuster.com. We should always act as so, this is the only way we hope this kind of junk will disapear from the net, But there will always be intelligent people using there intelligence to scam others. ciao, Sylvie

shippo canada 2 years ago

Hey jimmy thanks for this, i googled this, as it wasnt picked up in my spam, as all others do. If it was true jimmy, then you have been cheated, as i had the same numbers as you, but i won 850k GB Pounds..alas i shall not collect as i feel all this money would ruin my life..LOL.. How stupid do they think we are (or nearly)

Manish 2 years ago

Hi...dude good informetion

I also gat the same mail.....this not one of it kind i have got many of these please check below..

fromcheke usu <cheke503@msn.com>reply-tochekeusu@gmail.comtodateThu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:45 PMsubjecta good businessmailed-bymsn.comhide details Apr 23 Reply

Hi,I will like you to help me, in the transfer of fund worth($3.2Million) into your account, we have to share it 50%to 50% and i believe that you can not cheat me after thetransfer, i will send you more detail about this transfer assoon as i hear from you. pls reply at:chekeusu@gmail.com

then hi send me the next mail...

fromcheke usu <cheke03@live.fr>tomanish.morey@gmail.comdateFri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:28 PMsubjectread in detailmailed-bylive.frhide details Apr 24 Reply

Dear Manish, read this message in detail for your full understanding about this transaction. I am CHEKE USU. the Director in charge of Auditing section Bank Of Africa (B.O.A). Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise. AS IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW, I GOT YOUR IMPRESSIVE INFORMATION THROUGH THE INTERNET SEARCH HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO. I FASTED AND PRAYED FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE I CONTACT YOU TO BE MY PARTNER. I have decided to contact you on a project that will be very beneficial for both of us. During our auditing in this Bank,I came across some amount of money belonging to a deceased foreigner who died with his wife and their three children in a plane crash.The fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody from his relation before my discovery to this development. The said amount is U.S $3.2.00(THREE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS).Our Banking law stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after 5 years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin. I dont want this money to go into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed Bill. Be assured that this transaction is 100% risk free. On conclusion of this Project, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as gratification, while 60% will be for me. Please you have been adviced to keep "top secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this deal with you. I will fly down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment will be discussed. On your acceptance to be my partner, i will send you a text of application to fill and send to the bank for payment approval.Regards.Cheke Usu

this in not his real name ....the sender ramain unknow....please dont get in to it......its a scam...i have searched ont net for this....

after some dayes they ask you for money for a parsal..to send to you...and so on....

Bob 2 years ago

who would fall for this ?

ximena 2 years ago

I recieved exactly the same email today!!!! with the same lucky numbers! of course it is a lie!

got that one to 2 years ago

man, i thought it was true, but when i googled it, it was just a scam! shame on those who spread these scams! but really, i knew this was just too good to be true. hehehe

another one 2 years ago

Dear Valued Customer,Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred ThousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows:Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number:00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12).Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below:Mr. Francis Henson,Email: mrf.francis.g.promo09@googlemail.comSincerely,Antonella Puggioni

leyla 2 years ago

also got one..

vanGoogle Online promotion ©2009 <winner@googlemail.com>Antwoorden opmrnewton.brown@live.comaandatum11 mei 2009 13:03onderwerpWinnerdetails verbergen 13:03 (29 minuten geleden) Beantwoorden

From The Email Ballot Of the Google Give Away promotion, We annouce you winner of 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away promotion.Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search. YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664 Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) You are to contact mr Newton Brown For More Information. Email: mrnewton.brown@live.com Regards Google-Online Co-ordinator

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forlan 2 years ago

fraud people everywhere. if they could make million dollars, why they tell to us

Islander 2 years ago

Hi All,

Got one of these today. So their scam continues...

fromAlan Carr <Alan.Carr@ucd.ie>reply-tomrf.henson01@msn.com

todateSun, May 3, 2009 at 2:04 PMsubjectGoogle Online Promo © 2009mailed-byucd.ie

hide details 2:04 PM (4 hours ago) Reply

Dear Valued Customer,Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12).

Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below:

Mr. Francis Henson,Email: giveaways.promoonline.2009@gmail.com

Sincerely,Mr Alan Carr.

Patsy 2 years ago

Yup - 1 May 2009 and I have just received it. A much shorter one than yours, but the various numbers, including the "winning ticket number" were identical to yours. Also, it was addressed to "none", so how could I have been picked out as the winner? The address they gave for me to contact them was promo.announcement11@gmail.com. Though tempted to flame them, I resisted. ;-)

ogonek 2 years ago

I recieved the same mail today!

"You won the sum of 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google promotion, you are to contact Mr Newton Brown The online agent assign to handle your funds for more information Email: mrnewton.brown4@live.com.Below are your winning details Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 (No Ticket Sold)"

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onlinemarketingsc 2 years ago

Con people will always abound, if only because scamming the gullible is just another business opportunity, wherein the returns outweigh the investment. The post on email marketing above makes that point clearly: you just have to throw a large enough net and some fish will get caught; then you have to keep doing it again and again until even the not so bright fish learn to avoid you. Emails, phone calls, websites, pamphlets. The medium used may vary, but scams are scams. It's good you posted this to inform people.

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RobertHassey 2 years ago

Like P.T. Barnum said, "A sucker is born every minute." There's a strategy of generating traffic called email marketing in which from 10,000 emails you send, maybe 3% actually visit your site, and from that 300 visits 10 people actually buy from you. So if your product is $25.00, just by sending 10,000 emails you can get $250.00. There are software that can mine people's emails and save them, and software for mass sending of emails, so all you really need to do is sit for a long time in front of your PC.

I suppose it's the same with these false emails that trick people into spending and sending money and detailing their credit card info just to get hold of some elusive prize. So who do we think these scammers are kidding? A lot. The small minority that take them seriously, however, aren't as lucky.

Avish 2 years ago

hello everybody, at last, i get it also:

fromGoogle Online Promotion ©2009 <mrnewton.brown4@live.com>todateFri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 AMsubjectAttn:mailed-byucsc.edu

hide details 4:02 AM (8 hours ago) Reply

You won the sum of 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google promotion, you are to contact Mr Newton Brown The online agent assign to handle your funds for more information Email: mrnewton.brown4@live.com. send the following: Full Name , Mobile No, Occupation, Age, Sex, Country. Below are your winning details Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 (No Ticket Sold)

Great Post, 10X. ;-)

Keyur 2 years ago

Hey guys,

I received the same kind of mail from some different id. Text of the mail is mentioned below:-

"fromGoogle Online Promotion ©2009 <mrnewton.brown4@live.com>todateFri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:41 AMsubjectAttn:mailed-byucsc.edu

hide details 4:41 AM (6 hours ago) Reply

You won the sum of 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google promotion, you areto contact Mr Newton Brown The online agent assign to handle your funds formore information Email: mrnewton.brown4@live.com. send the following: FullName , Mobile No, Occupation, Age, Sex, Country. Below are your winningdetails Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 (NoTicket Sold)"

I think some group of people like want us to cheat.

But I cant get how they can steal money from us?

Please revert me how they can make money by sending such stupid mails???

Thanks,

My email ID is anandjiwalakeyur@gmail.com

Knave 2 years ago

Why arent these scammers being arrested? How hard can they be to find? Somewhere in the money transaction there should be a way to trap them.

king 2 years ago

this is really pathetic that these people make their fool by themselves i also recieved the same king of crap today morning. I just entered a few kewords on google n got information about the scam it really sucks man!

Satyendra 2 years ago

fromclaims@googlelotto.comreply-tomr.francishenson@live.com

todate3 April 2009 04:19subjectGoogle Give-Away Promotion(Congratulation)

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You won £500,000.00 GBP in Google Online Give-away promotion.For more info/how to claim your prize,send your winning Ticketnumber:00869575733664,CGPN:7-22-71-00-66-12,Serialnumbers:BTD/8070447706/06,Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12)and personal details to the processing agent with theseE-mail:claims.processing.agents@gmail.com,mr.francishenson@live.com

This is what i received today morning -

Nothing to say more aftre reading above all comments abt it...

Just take it easy and keep doing healthy browsing..

Good luck -

Inga-Lill 2 years ago

I have got one today! 13 mars 2009.

hamid 2 years ago

thanks for the hub.

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Here is the mail what i got.

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You won £500,000.00 GBP in Google Online Give-away promotion. For more info/how to claim your prize,send your winning Ticket number:00869575733664,CGPN:7-

22-71-00-66-12,Serial numbers:BTD/8070447706/06,Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12) and personal details to the processing agent with these E-mail:claim.processing.agents@gmail.com ,mr.francis_henson2009@live.com

colapunk 2 years ago

got one too!

Dear Valued Customer, Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below: Mr. Francis Henson, Email: winners.newyearpromo.09@gmail.com Sincerely, Mrs Alice Galon

sent from a-galon@bezeqint.net...

chiranjib nath 2 years ago

Dear Sir,Respectfully i beg to state that i have get a mail from Google 10th Anniversary Awards Centre Feb.

20th, 2009 in London, United Kingdom

Tel: +Tel: +447010513236 that i am win Thousand Great British Pounds (? 500,000.00) and organized by Google Inc., held on Feb. 20th, 2009 in London, United Kingdom.in the mail seeking of my personal information .so the requird data has been given bellows

1. Full name:2. Country:3. Contact Address:4. Telephone/Fax no.:5. Marital Status:6. Occupation:7. Sex:8. Age:Director of Operations: Dr. Cibor JeronimE-Mail:googlecenter51@hotmail.comTel: +447010513236Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this email address Congratulations!! Sincerely Yours,Google Management Sir,I therefore request to your organisation it is real or not kindly intimation me as early as possible.

Thanking you

Chiranjib Nath

India

Cecil 2 years ago

thanks for the hub. thanks for the warning guys. thanks for all your information. that so stupid email.

bryan 3 years ago

i just got this exact email...I knew it was a scam right off the bat.

had to google it to see...sure enough...SCAM.

David Fremlin 3 years ago

My wife got the message today. The idle sod can't even be bothered to change the winning numbers. But his own e-mail is now giveaway.agent01@gmail.com.

An unusual feature: he gave a genuine return address, belonging to a (presumed innocent) hotelkeeper in Costa Rica.

Sister 3 years ago

Thanks for all your information. It confirmed for me what I had been thinking all along. This is my first time to recieve this kind of email. Once again, thank you all.

Your E-mail has Won in our End Of Year Online AnniversaryPromotion.SEND WINNING DETAILS:Computer Generated ProfileNumbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12,Ticket number:00869575733664Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06 Luckynumbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12)To:Mr.Francis HensonEmail:fhenson01@aol.com Thanks For Using Google.

renjivarkey@yahoo.com 3 years ago

I had a discussion with almost 15 winners. they all lost their money.

sarita from india,surat 3 years ago

i got a mail from ggogle new year promotion winning cash 500000 british pounds prize from google.on 1st january.i knew that it's a fake...not true but, i have respoced him by given ids & contact with them,..as a result...they have given me so many details ...or delievery opitins to get winning cash....& i tried to contact with them as given theirs number.....just come to know that ...how rudlly they are making fool to people..& now there after sending with all details....since i havent received any mail from them.....hope i will not get it again...

krishnamurthy.M.s 3 years ago

this is nothing but scam to cheat people who believe in getting fast bucks . Do not fall prey. I too had recieved this E mail said to be from google but verified and found bullshit

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jimmythejock Hub Author 3 years ago

So long as you haven't given them your banking details you should be safe, but if you have given them out you should contact you bank as soon as possible to stop any transactions before it is too late, good luck.....jimmy

noodle 3 years ago

what if i tell them my info?im such a stupid before to reply them.stupid me.what should i do?

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Mezo Level 1 Commenter 3 years ago

it occures evey day online

i even received a mobile message claimed to be from NOKIA UK

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Wizzywigg 3 years ago

If you were to run a competition for who receives the most of these types of e-mails, I'm sure I'd win! I've been receiving around 40 per day for the last 2 years! My fault I guess as I do encourage spam, in between the rubbish you can find useful info, but the things these people dream up are incredible!

I received one from an African who apparenty started the internet! Yup he was the creator and to prove it he even gave a link to a website that praised his achievements! Then there's the Christian Ministries annual giveaway of charity money and a link to a genuine catholic web site.

Lady Windsor, currently living in Africa but unfortunately dying of cancer has several billion that she doesn't want her family to get their hands on, so she wants me to give it to her cats, and THE director general of the Nigerian National bank is in the unfortunate position of having to 'dispose' of several billion that was left in an account by a presumed dead terrorist. I just need to send him all my personal and bank details together with a blank sheet of paper with my signature at the bottom. Of course I'll mail it first class!

Be warned however that some of these scams can be quite clever. I received one once from Yahoo, and it even had a link to their site so that I could check, well it looked exactly like a yahoo site and I almost, nearly......signed in !

Oh by the way, I forgot to tell you....the only one that isn't a scam is the google award, apparently they are celebrating 10 years and they're giving away fortunes, look out for it in your mail box but you must respond immediately or you lose it.

(Joking!)

Georgie 3 years ago

I received the same thing! Anyway, I chased it all up, and they said

Send postage and handling charges to (etc.) to receive your prize. Yes, I think its a scam!!!

Well, Have a great day! Thankyou for confirming it for me, too, as now i know! Thanks!

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arak1547 3 years ago

Obviously a 419er. There are actually websites out there that bait these guys and get them to incriminate themsleves (or just make them look stupid) The best one is the 419 eater website at http://www.419eater.com/ The best one I've seen was the one where Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC scammed the scammer in to thinking he was going to be getting a bunch of MONEY!

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&bran

Obviously they aren't that bright.

Elesse 3 years ago

I'm rich!!!

Received one like those, from same google online promo. The numbers are the same from Jimmy. So, we'll have to fight to see who gets the prize. See you on battlefield :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

The stupid email:

info@g-promotion.co.uk para undisclosed-re. mostrar detalhes 30 Nov (1 dia atrás) Responder

Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our 1Oth anniversary online giveaway draws.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12).

Contact your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who has been assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing with the contact below:Mr. Francis Henson,Email: agent.francishenson1@gmail.com

Sincerely,Mrs E. Squier.

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knslms 3 years ago

I get these all the time, I have often woundered if people are actually falling for this.

pawan kumar 3 years ago

HAVE A LOOK OF THIS EMAIL & BEWARE OF SUCH SCAMMERS:

This Email is to inform you that you emerged a winner of 1,000,000 British Pounds on our on line draws.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 564 75600545-188 with serialnumber 5388/02 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-31-45, which consequently won inthe 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay outof 1,000,000 (One Million Pounds Sterling ).

1.Full names...2. address....3.Mobile number...4.Faxnumber..........5.Occupation.....6.Sex...........Age......9.Email Address................................

Prize Claim Inquiries:Please Contact our Verification service center so that they can provide youwith more information's about how to claim your won prize.

FIDUCIARY AGENT OFFICERSir Barry OwenEmail: fiduciary_barryowen007@yahoo.co.ukTel: +447031922622

Faithfully,Mr Gerald SmithZone Co-coordinator for BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.Sweepstakes International Program.

alzain 3 years ago

thanks for the warning guys,i had a doubt that the email was a hoax because it didnt have the offical google logo.

nice websitr

VIKAS KOHLI, INDIA 3 years ago

Keep yourselves away from this kind of lucarative mails. This only leads you for mental and financial tence. I too received this kind of mail and handover this to Economics Wings and Special Cyber Crime Investigating Deptt. within seconds after receive these to nab the culprits who they think smarter in their own way. By now they will behind bars. But my sincere request to all of you to take away from this kind of mails. Bye

Erin 3 years ago

I got the same "francis henson" email today, and they are now sending it from the email address winners@googlepromotions.org, which looks more legit. i hope people still don't fall for it. if you go to googlepromotions.org, there is no website there - another easy way to check on the legitimacy of these scams.

sos 3 years ago

BRITISH MICROSOFT E-MAIL SELECT AWARD FROM HEAD OFFICES LONDON 19th, 9. 2008. British Microsoft AwardHeadquarters: Customerservice 33 Yatch Basin Marina Offices, UponTyne Newcastle London Attn: Winner Your email address have just won a Yahoo cum Windows live prize money of (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) (GBP?1,000,000.00) today 19th, of September, 2008 Award winners emerge through random selection of all active email subscribers online. Six are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion. Payment Of Prize And Claims.Winners are to be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. This Prize Award must be claimed in not later than 15 days from date of draw notification after which unclaimed prizes are cancelled. WINNER NO: 4 These are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER:MFI/07/APA-43658REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522AWARD WINNING NO: 4 These numbers fall within the South African file. Thus, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg and send your winning identification numbers to him: Contact No: Foreign Transfer Agent NAME MR CLEMENT DUBE UNITED KINGDOM MICROSOFT AWARD REPRESENTATIVE AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA TEL: 0027780791577 OFFIC FAX NO: 002786 566 8051 E-mail clementdubebma@hotmail.com clementdubebma1@gmail.com Kindly send the following information to your claim agent to facilitate the release of your fund. 1 .Full name................. 6. Country........................ 2. Telephone Number........ 7. Fax Number.................... 3. Sex.................. 8. Date of birth............... 4. Marital Status.............. 5. Occupation.................. 9. Contact Address............ 10. Copy of your International passport or Drivers license......... Once your agent acknowledge receipt of this required detail, transfer would commence. Congratulations!! Once Again.Yours in service, Dr.( Prof ) John Martins (British Microsoft Award Manager)NOTEYou are hereby advised not to disclose the content of this Prize Award until your money have been remitted to you to avoid disqualification that will arise from dual claim. Best Regard,DR. C. Mark Van Lottery Board Director

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JohnKhoo 3 years ago

One of the obvious thing to let us judge on wether the email is scam or not is the sender's email addresses. I can say 100% email sent via free mail like hotmail, yahoo mail, google mail are all scams. Why don't they just be wise a little bit next time not to send via free email? Coz it is too obvious for other people to know that they are SCAMMER.

Mr. G 3 years ago

There is a female from North Africa who calls herself Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor age 23, Whose late father apparently left her $30,000,000.00 USD who needs some assistance to release the funds!!! What a load of Bullshit!!!!!!! Watch-out!!!!

toty 3 years ago

Be carefully I recive one yesterday and one today following.

WE CELEBRATE WITH YOU.‏From:Awardheadofficelondon@microsoft.co.uk (ss.mmm5@aliceadsl.fr)You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafeSent:Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:42:50 PMTo:

Yahoo Awards Center

BRITISH MICROSOFT E-MAIL SELECT AWARD FROM HEAD OFFICES LONDON 25st, 8. 2008.

British Microsoft AwardHeadquarters: Customerservice

33 Yatch Basin Marina Offices, UponTyne Newcastle London

Attn: Winner

Your email address have just won a Yahoo cum Windows live prize money of (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) (GBP£1,000,000.00) today 25st, of Aust, 2008

Award winners emerge through random selection of all active email subscribers online. Six are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion.

Payment Of Prize And Claim

Winners are to be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. This Prize Award must be claimed in not later than 15 days from date of draw notification after which unclaimed prizes are cancelled.

WINNER NO: 4

These are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER:MFI/07/APA-43658REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522AWARD WINNING NO: 4

These numbers fall within the South African file. Thus, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg and send your winning identification numbers to him:

Contact No: Foreign Transfer Agent

NAME MR CLEMENT DUBE UNITED KINGDOM MICROSOFT AWARD REPRESENTATIVE AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

TEL: 0027780791577 OFFIC FAX NO: 0027866476669 E-mail clementdubebma@hotmail.com

clementdubebma1@hotmail.com

Kindly send the following information to your claim agent to facilitate the release of your fund.

1 .Full name................. 6. Country........................

2. Telephone Number........ 7. Fax Number.................... 3. Sex.................. 8. Date of birth...............

4. Marital Status..............

5. Occupation.................. 9. Contact Address............

10. Copy of your International passport or Drivers license.........

Once your agent acknowledge receipt of this required detail, transfer would commence.

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You won in google promotions with the following Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)‏

From:Google Online Lottery (googleonlinelottery1@mchsi.com)You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafeSent:Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:38:08 AMTo: You are a winner of 500,000.00 GBP in our online Give-away You are requiresend the following details Your full names sex Address Mobile No Occupation Country age to the following mr newtonbrown(mrnewton.brown4@live.com. your winning details as follow ComputerGenerated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12

Wali 3 years ago

Oh really, this message reminds me something:as far as there is a stupid, poor will survives some how!!! :-)

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ahmadnaim 3 years ago

haha be very very careful out there my friend cuz internet can be your best friends and your worst enemies

nicole 3 years ago

I also got this spam :

You won £500,000.00 GBP in Google Online Give-away promotion. Contact Mr Francis Henson with the following details below through this email: mrf.henson002@googlemail.com. YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number:00869575733664,Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

I googled bout this Mr Francis Henson, maybe these spammers experienced a bit by using googlemail. but why did they send it to yahoomail not to gmail if it's a google promotion? still such a moron..

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bluewings 3 years ago

I am aware of such emails using Yahoo's name , but the ones I received using Google's name have , so far , been about making money working for Google.However, those are mostly spams ( although not all of them scams) and obviously not from Google. I know that people still do fall into the traps of such phishers because the internet surfer is growing by the hour, but I was surprised to read the second comment here.

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compu-smart 3 years ago

These people who send these emails to thousands of people are really quite smart! as there will always be people who are NOT smart, and think its all real and send account details or payments to secure winnings!!

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2patricias Level 4 Commenter 3 years ago

The sad thing is that there are people who fall for these scams! I also get fake phone calls, which begin, 'Congratulations, you have been selected...' (I usually hang up at that point.)

JohnnyV 3 years ago

Why would someone pretending to be from Google have a Hotmail address?? Stupid as a sack of rocks...

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guidebaba 3 years ago

What a Scam. How can these people send such mail and then consider themself smart and clever. They are the Biggest FOOLs on Earth.

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grumpyjacksa 3 years ago

i had a similar thing in my yahoo box a while ago , claiming to be from yahoo . of course , you had to pay a small fee to claim your prize . wonder how many people fell for that one......

kristy 3 years ago

I just received a email from Google stating that it was their ten year aniversary, and that i just won the same amount of money. Cant these jerks just leave me alone. I guess what the say is right. The love of money is the root of all evil. Darn scam artist.

tahoedad 3 years ago

Heres the one I received today...

Dear Lucky Winner , Permit me to start this mail by congratulating you as one of our lucky winners of the SECOND QUARTER of the 2008 GOOGLE E_LOTTO PROMOTIONS. In a bid to unify email services offered by all email giants, GOOGLE came out with its internet user rewarding promotions aimed at improving the lots of all email users.

The May winnings was spectacular as many email users were selected at random by e-balloting software. Due to high turnover for the past months, the prizes were quite awesome with our highest winner going home a whooping sum of Seventy Five Thousand Pounds(£75,000.00GBP).That was the highest winning since the inception of the e-lottery promotion by Google.

You are being notified because your email address was selected randomly by the e-balloter. Your prize winnings stands at Seventy five Thousand Pounds. (£75,000.00GBP)This amount is subject to change with time depending on the number of winners claims received by the claims depart of Google E-lotto. Below are your winning details;Winning Batch Number: GIL/96/05/07Reference Number:GIL/UK/ID/05607Pin: 4791Winning amount:Seventy Five thousand pounds. (£75,000 GBP)

To proceed with your claims, Send your response which include your name, contact details and winning details to our Claims Agent, Mr.Grant Tancredi email:(tancredi_glotto@yahoo.co.uk) Phone: +44-702-401-5857 Fax: +447-024-058-766

Winning Batch Number: GIL/96/05/07 Reference Number:GIL/UK/ID/05607Pin: 4791Winning amount:Seventy Five Thousand Pounds

To proceed with your claims, Send your response which include your name, contact details and winning details to Grant Tancredi for processing and remittance of your funds.

Once More, Accept our felicitations.

Sincerely,Grant For Google World.

hus 3 years ago

I got one too. Really a stupid jerk who did this. nonsense? you just wait for your turn to be fooled....for those honest poeple out there help others fight this unwanted scam....too many and too much already....

sylvan 3 years ago

Thanks for the heads up, my mom asks me about these all the time.

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Eric Graudins 3 years ago

This sort of stuff has been going on forever.

Bulk mailers, chain letter forwarders, and now in this technological age - Spammers - send em out.

People keep responding.

So they send more out.

You won't get rid of this kind of stuff until the part of the brain that handles the desire of people to get something for nothing is surgically removed.

No matter how much advice you give people to stay away, there's always that little, niggling voice in their heads saying . . .

"I know, but maybe THIS one is legitimate . . . ."

And the one in maybe one million who responds makes it all worthwile for the spammers. (@ Rajan - I feel for you! )

And results in clogged up mailboxes for the rest of us.

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Chuck Level 4 Commenter 3 years ago

Great hub Jimmy. But it appears that they forgot to ask you for your bank account number so they could deposit your winnings. LOL Chuck

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Rob Jundt Level 4 Commenter 3 years ago

Nice expose. These, unfortunately, run rampant on the net. Thanks.

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msms 3 years ago

These spammers and Nigeria-billioinnaire dreams thugs cheats are in plenty on net for a few hundred dollars... good to expose them

Daniel Pyle 3 years ago

Hey thanks for the hub....It is this type of scam that runs rampant across the internet. Which makes some legitimate opportunities seem too good to be true...Two years in internet and network marketing has yielded many a scam just like this into my inbox...the first thing that I would urge you to do is delete any email with a lottery or winnings claim....I usually just hit reply and then get the confirmation that the email address is invalid...Doing what I do...I nail every single spammer out there to a tree....People hate me for that but I want to keep things legitimate for those of us doing business online..Thanks again for the hub.

Srinivas Rajan 3 years ago

Believe me, the lure of money blinds everything and people like me have fallen for it . I ended up spending about 41,000/- and ended up getting nothing . Please don't fall into the same trap .

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jacobworld 3 years ago

come on u cant fall for this

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