"2016 Google Anniversary Award" Lottery Scam

2016 Google Anniversary Award Lottery Scam

The "Google Anniversary Award" email message below is a lottery scam created to trick the recipients into sending their personal information and money, by claiming that they are the winner of the Google Anniversary Award promotion or lottery. The email message was not sent by Google, but by lottery scammers. There is no Google lottery, and Google will never ask you to send your personal information via email message.

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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 Award
Google Promotion Award Department®
44 Oakleugh Road
South London N11 INP
United Kingdom.

2016 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY.

Dear E-mail User,
Your e-mail ID has emerged as a winner of GBP£500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion Award. 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, the Google ancillary services, support fraud victims, support widows, uplift poverty alleviation, charity aid, community development, improve the level of education worldwide, encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide for vast knowledge and also increase the standard of living of the less privileged. Hence we do believe that 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 ID of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL, ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND, FACEBOOK and all the social networks online, among the billions users that subscribe to internet in which your email ID emerged as one of the lucky winners that won £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling} through electronic balloting system without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the lucky people that won for this month.

A winning cheque of £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} will be issued on 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 international bank draft,and when delivered and received by you, you can deposit and cash it in any bank of your choice without any delay.

To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award claims Fiduciary Agent (Mr Grahams Benfield)
neatly filling the verification details below.

GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENT
Mr Grahams Benfield
Contact Email: (oxford.anouncer@ outlook.com) or (oxford.anouncer@ googlemail.com)

Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to the Fiduciary Agent;
1. Full Name:
2. House Address:
3. Occupation:
4. Sex:
5. Age:
6. Marital Status:
7. Direct Phone No:
8. Country:
9. Ticket Number: 00869575733664
10. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/06
11.Lucky Number: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

Google values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this award only.

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 cancellation 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.

Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this Email-ID. Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.

Note that this email can't receive replies,so kindly forward your verification details as requested via email to our Fiduciary Agent as stated above.

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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Aug. 21, 2018 at 2:01 PM by
"2016 Google Anniversary Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Nairobi, Kenya

Here is another scam:

"YOUR EMAIL-ID HAS WON YOU (£500,000.00 GBP)

Google UK Award

7:02 AM (14 hours ago)

Google Promotion Award Department®

44 Oakleugh Road

South London N11 INP

United Kingdom.

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your ISP, we at (Google Award Department) urge you to treat it genuinely.

2018 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.

Dear E-mail Account User,

Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated ticket number 00869575733664 with serial number BTD/8070447706/06 drew the lucky numbers 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) has emerged as a winner of GBP500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds)...

9. Ticket Number: 00869575733664

10. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/06

11.Lucky Number: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

Google values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this award only.

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 cancellation 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.

Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this Email-ID. Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.

Note that this email can't receive replies, so kindly forward your verification details as requested via email (oxford.anouncer@googlemail.com) to our Fiduciary Agent as stated above.

Mrs. Charlene Richards.

Promotion Award Manager.

C2018 Google Corporation."

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Nov. 8, 2016 at 12:35 PM by
"2016 Google Anniversary Award" Lottery Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"Data: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:08:58 0000

Responder Para: gp-onlinesweepstake@webname.com

Assunto: 2016 Annual Notification

We the google company here in united kingdom is pleased to announce to

you today by email that you have successfully being selected as one of

the google 2016 annual award promotion.

For more details please read attached details and get back to us for

further directives.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Anniversary Award Team.

Sundar Pichai,

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/GOOGLE INC."

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Sep. 10, 2016 at 2:11 PM by
"2016 Google Anniversary Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Tucker, Georgia, United States

I received the same notification scam regarding 2016 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY REWARD / PROMOTION.

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Sep. 6, 2016 at 9:39 PM by
"2016 Google Anniversary Award" Lottery Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"Google Inc. Headquarters

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View,

CA 94043. United States of America

Release No: G/347/134/2016

Ticket No: G/0123/16

Dear Esteemed User.

2016 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY REWARD / PROMOTION

We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being part of our selected beneficiary in our 2016 Google Anniversary user reward. This reward promotion is not a scam, but was set-up to encourage, motivate and reward active users of Google search engine, YouTube, Google Map, Google Earth, Ad Sense and Google ancillary services.

Hence we do believe with such Reward, you will continue to make use of the Google services. Google is the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail draw, which your email qualified you to receive the sum of $760,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand United State Dollars). We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online Beneficiary.

A Certified check was issued in your name by Google Inc Promotion Award; for the sum of Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand United State Dollars ($760,000.00) and also a certificate of fund claims will be sent alongside your check cashable at any bank. Our Affiliated Bank can also do a Wire directly to your Bank Account if requested.

You are advised to contact the assigned Google Administrator/Coordinator with the following correct details below to avoid unnecessary delay and complications: The following details below"

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