The "Google Anniversary" email message below is a scam created by lottery scammers to trick the recipients into sending their personal information and money, by claiming that they are winners of the Google Anniversary Award promotion. There is no Google lottery, and Google will never ask you to send your personal information via email message. Remember, never send money in order to receive lottery prizes; and if you are asked to do so, it is the first red flag that someone is attempting to scam you.
This type of lottery scam will ask you to send your personal information and subsequently ask you to send money in order to receive your prize. But, please do not respond to the email message or follow the instructions in it.
Google is not taking part in or endorsing any lottery games, so if you receive an email claiming that you have won some lottery prize endorsed by Google, it is a scam.
The “Google Anniversary Promotional Award” Email
GOOGLE 2015 ANNIVERSARY
Google Promotion Award Department
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.
GOOGLE 2015 ANNIVERSARY.
Dear Lucky Winner,
We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users 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.
The Google Promotion Award Team collects the E-mail addresses of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL, ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND and all the social networks online, among the billions users that subscribe to internet in which your email address did emerge as one of the lucky winners that won £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this Month of January.
A winning cheque of £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} will be issued in your name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning cheque.
Note that all winners cheque are certified cashiers bank cheque and when delivered and received by you, you can deposit and cash it in your bank without any delay.
Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to your Fiduciary Agent;
1. FULL NAMES:
2. HOUSE ADDRESS:
3. OCCUPATION:
4. SEX:
5. AGE:
6. DIRECT PHONE NO:
7. COUNTRY:
8. TICKET NUMBER: 00869675733664
9. SERIAL NUMBER: BTD/8070447706/06
10.LUCKY NUMBER: 12-1223-35-40-41(12)
Contact Person: Mr Grahams Benfield
Contact Email: (gfiduciaryagent @gmail.com)
The Google Promotion Award Team 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. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. 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.
Mrs.Charlene Richards.
Promotion Award Manager.
C2015 Google Corporation.
There is no prize, so please do not send your hard earned money to these cybercriminals. If you send your personal information, these cybercriminals will use it to further scam you.
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