Email Fraud Alert received from: Sergy
I recently received an email with this subject line: GOOGLE HAPPY NEW YEAR ANNIVERSARY. and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Dear Google User:
Attached is your winning notification for your patronage to the Google app and service please go through the attached file and get back to us for further directives..
Regards,
Google Incorporation Uk.
___________________________________
Google UK Ltd
Belgrave House
76 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ
United Kingdom.
Winning No: GUK/537/447/2015
Ticket No: GUK/289/57/2015
GOOGLE HAPPY NEW YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
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, 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 Promotion Award Team, You have
therefore won the entire sum of £450,000.00 {Four Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great
British Pounds Sterling} and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your
winning cheque.
Mr. Larry Page
Foreign Transfer Manager
Google Promotion Award Team
Company Email:larrypage@gpawardprom.com
Contact Tel: +447 053 838 653
You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the following details to avoid
unnecessary delay and complications:
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.
(1)Your Full Names
(2)Your Contact Address.(3) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(4) Your Nationality/Country.
(5) Occupation/Company.
(6) Age/Gender.
(7) Ever won an online lottery?
(8) How do you feel as a Google winner.
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 from headquarters 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.
Sincerely,
Dr. Donald Lloyd.
Google Promotion Award Team.
The above email was sent by “Google UK Ltd” from this email address: googlewinners@info.co.uk
I, Sergy, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Google UK Ltd”:
Hey Larry have you been demoted?
What a load of old codswallop